[Mageia-dev] Consolidation of the spell checkers - current status before Beta 1 and general version freeze

[Anne nicolas]

2012/2/14 Kamil Rytarowski <n54 at gmx.com>:
> On 07.02.2012 03:23, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> We are just only one month before the version freeze and two weeks before
>> planned release of Beta 1.
>>
>> What was planned
>> - to switch in Mageia packages from Aspell and Myspell to Hunspell
>> - to support in Enchant only Hunspell and Voikko (the Finnish
>> spell-checker)
>> - permanently remove Myspell from Mga2
>> - keep Aspell and Aspell dictionaries as a fall-back for old or software
>> (or already not ported)
>> - remove Ispell remnants
>> * prepare policy for a Hunspell dictionary
>>
>> What was faced
>> - lack of policy
>> - Mozilla software (Firefox, Thunderbird, ...) is using Myspell
>> - packages: alpine, kadu-module-spellchecker, kdelibs4-core, scribus,
>> weechat-aspell, xedit, xfig, gedit, psi, claws-mail, eclipse-texlipse, mutt
>> and some perl and php packages were affected
>> - 120 Hunspell dictionaries needed to be rewritten
>> - 76 Aspell dictionaries needed to stop providing a virtual package
>> "enchant-dictionary"
>> - Some Myspell packages provide hyphenation and thesaurus - and it has to
>> be fully replaced by mythes and hyphen dictionaries
>>
>> What was done
>> - policy is written https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Hunspell-dictionary_policy
>> * it is following Mageia rpm guidelines and spec policies,
>> * we follow and base on the Fedora packages (mainly versions and sources)
>> and therefore it's much easier to maintain
>> - these packages already switched to Enchant or Hunspell
>> * alpine, kadu-module-spellchecker, kdelibs4-core,  weechat-aspell, xfig,
>> gedit, psi, claws-mail, eclipse-texlipse
>> (scribus is facing this request upstream, mutt and xedit still need a
>> closer look)
>> * Ispell Perl package was marked as obsoleted and to be deleted
>> - c. 3/4 Hunspell dictionaries are already transformed
>> - c. 1/3 Aspell dictionaries are already cleaned
>>
>> To-do now (or before the local freeze for Beta 1)
>> - transform the rest of Hunspell dictionaries
>> - clean Aspell dictionaries
>> - final cleanning of Mozilla applications
>> * remove myspell definitely from Mga2
>> *ETA 2012-02-14*
>>
>> To-do before the release freeze
>> - clean mythes, thesaurus (and autocorr) packages
>> - review transformed dictionaries
>> - try to switch to Enchant/Hunspell in two Perl modules and review php
>> ones
>
> Unfortunatelly I can't participate today the meeting.
>
> Status of the consolidation of the spellcheckers since last notification:
> - all hunspell dictionaries are transformed and are installing into right
> directories
> - imported and submitted dictionaries of some missing languages (for now
> gsc, lv, mg)
> - there was a bug request to move Mozilla applications to use hunspell
> (dmorgan, ansii, doktor were having a look)
> - there was a bug request to use external thesaurus dictionaries in Mozilla
> appls (thanks Luc!)
>
> To-do before the version freeze (I think, I can finish it tonight):
> - review additional ~50 hunspell dicts and use better obsoletion of myspell
> - stop providing enchant-dictionary in 2/3 aspell dicts
>
>
> To-do before the release freeze:
> - fix latest applications to use hunspell/enchant (xedit, mutt, some perl
> and php packages,..?)
> - fix bugs

Thanks, btw meeting is tomorrow

-- 
Anne
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