[arch-general] adding hunspell-xx packages
Right now we don't have modern dictionaries packaged. People use AUR packages or poor OpenOffice extensions that cannot be used for other apps. The proper way is to have hunspell-xx packages providing a dictionary, thesaurus and hyphenation data files. I'm going to add a base set of hunspell-{en,de,foo} packages to testing. A common PKGBUILD doesn't make much sense because the upstream sources are maintained in different countries and releases come at different time. This way we can make use of the packages in OOo/LibO, enchant and Mozilla's FF/TB/SM packages. The files will go into /usr/share/hunspell/xx_XX with symlinks to /usr/share/myspell/dicts/xx-XX for historical reason. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell for more. To compare look at http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/openoffice.org-dictionaries http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=hunspell-XX.git http://gentoo-portage.com/app-dicts/ the myspell-xx packages. Any comments or objection? -Andy
On 30 December 2010 12:31, Andreas Radke <a.radke@arcor.de> wrote:
Right now we don't have modern dictionaries packaged. People use AUR packages or poor OpenOffice extensions that cannot be used for other apps. The proper way is to have hunspell-xx packages providing a dictionary, thesaurus and hyphenation data files.
I'm going to add a base set of hunspell-{en,de,foo} packages to testing. A common PKGBUILD doesn't make much sense because the upstream sources are maintained in different countries and releases come at different time.
This way we can make use of the packages in OOo/LibO, enchant and Mozilla's FF/TB/SM packages. The files will go into /usr/share/hunspell/xx_XX with symlinks to /usr/share/myspell/dicts/xx-XX for historical reason.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunspell for more.
To compare look at http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/openoffice.org-dictionaries http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=hunspell-XX.git http://gentoo-portage.com/app-dicts/ the myspell-xx packages.
Any comments or objection?
-Andy
Sounds great. Lukas
Now that we have some basic dictionary packages and LibO, Xulrunner and TB can make use of it I think we can move it out of testing. Anything else needs a rebuild or fix to use it? Maybe enchant? -Andy
Hi, I created a set of packages for Polish language. Maybe someone will be interested in including them into community/extra: - hunspell-pl (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44331) - hyphen-pl (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45007) - mythes-pl (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45008) Greetings -- Maciek Sitarz
Added Hunspell and Thesaurus packages for Portuguese (European) to the AUR. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45431 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45430 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45432 -- Mauro Santos
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Andreas Radke
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Lukáš Jirkovský
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Maciej Sitarz
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Mauro Santos