Re: Help Save Aspell From being Removed from Fedora!

On Mon, 5 May 2008, Kevin Scannell wrote:

> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  [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.
>>
> ...
>>
>>   3) Am I overreacting.
>>
>
> I use Debian/Ubuntu so I can't comment on exactly what's going on at
> Fedora.  I'd say, though, that you're right to at least be concerned.
>  Would it be possible to update the numbers on the test page
> http://aspell.net/test/ to compare the latest versions of aspell with
> hunspell?   I think measuring relative speed and memory footprint
> would be worthwhile too.

I actually uploaded something a while ago see,

   http://aspell.net/test/hunspell/orig/

actually I ran the tests with three different data sets, you can see them 
all at http://aspell.net/test/hunspell/.  "orig" is using the same data 
set I used for the original tests.

I will work on updating the main page.