Re: the solicitation of opinions

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 13:03, Chris Ricker wrote:

> > > aspell-0.5x -- the aspell in RHL 9 consumes all CPU when trying to
> > >       parse structured documents (XML, HTML, SGML). This fixes it,
> > >       but it's a fairly invasive change, so I don't know if it's
> > >       worth the effort?
> >
> > Hmm. I'll consider it.
> 
> good deal. New aspell replaces both pspell and aspell, and there's a lot of 
> software which gets build dependencies on specific versions of one or the 
> other, so it gets ugly quickly if a user tries to just upgrade on their own.

aspell-0.5x is not backwards compatible, and thus, appears to break
virtually everything its linked against. this one's a no.

~spot
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