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

Tue Feb 14 15:42:48 CET 2012

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
+http://www.mageia.org
+