Re: Help Save Aspell From being Removed from Fedora!

Kevin Atkinson 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.
> 
> 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.

FYI, considering that LyX still depend on aspell, I don't think this 
will happen soon. But we are going too to move away from Aspell sometime 
in the future (say one year) and Enchant is indeed a good candidate.

Abdel.