Help Save Aspell From being Removed from Fedora!

Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> Mon, 5 May 2008 04:18:01 -0600 (MDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.aspell.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[This is a part rant, but posting anyway to hopefully get some feedback]

Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary it looks 
like Aspell is in real danger of being completely removed from Fedora in 
favor of standardizing every applications to use one Spell Checker for 
every language.  Even if it is not the best spell checker for the 
language.  For the English language I strongly believe Aspell is the best 
spell checker.  I'm afraid that other Linux distributions may follow suit 
and Aspell may become completely unused, even though it is the best spell 
checker for the English language.

More generally I believe standardizing on one spell checker is short 
cited.  While I agree it is stupid to have multiple dictionaries for the 
same language installed, I believe it is even stupider to only use the 
same spell checker for all languages to avoid this problem.  Instead the 
best spell checker for a given language should be used for all 
applications using something like Enchant 
(http://www.abisource.com/enchant/).

If anyone on this list have used Fedora 9 or are more in tune with Fedora 
development I would like to know.

   1) How likely is it that Aspell will be removed from future releases.

   2) What if anything can be done about it.  Is there anyone I can contact
      to convince them to make Aspell the default for the English language
      when at all possible.

   3) Am I overreacting.