From kevin@atkinson.dhs.org Fri Aug 2 19:27:52 2002 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 19:16:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Kevin Atkinson Reply-To: aspell-devel@mail.freesoftware.fsf.org To: aspell-announce@mail.freesoftware.fsf.org, aspell-devel@mail.freesoftware.fsf.org, aspell-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [aspell-announce] Aspell is now a GNU Package The New Aspell is now an official GNU package! As a result of this all information related to the new Aspell has moved to http://www.gnu.org/software/aspell/index.html. The official name of the New Aspell has changed to "GNU Aspell" to reflect the fact that it is a GNU package. More changes are coming once everything gets set up. So stay tuned. As far as Aspell itself goes, it is now complete enough to function as a replacement for the old Aspell/Pspell with a few exceptions. However, it has not been tested that well at all. So, please test it out. In case you have not notices, I have found some time to work on Aspell. However my time is limited. Thus, I am still looking for someone to eventually take over the maintenance and development of Aspell. So, if you are interested in doing so please contact me. Even if you do not intend to become the maintainer of Aspell you can still help out with the development by helping me with one or more of the following tasks on my to do list. Good C++ skills are needed for most of the tasks involving coding. If you are interested in any of these please contact me at kevin@atkinson.dhs.org. TO DO: * Convert manual from LyX/LaTeX to Texinfo. * Clean up copyright notices and bring the Aspell package up to GNU Standards. * Add gettext support to Aspell. * Allow Aspell to check documents which are in UTF-8. The main thing to be done is to get Aspell to display UTF-8 correctly. This will involve being able to get the length of UTF-8 strings and display UTF-8 using the curses library. * Make Aspell Thread safe. Even though Aspell itself is not multi-threaded I would like it to be thread safe so that it can be used by multi-threaded programs. There are several areas of Aspell that that are potently thread unsafe (such as accessing a global pool) and several several classes which have the potential of being used by more than one thread (such as the personal dictionary). * Allow filters to be loaded at run-time. At the moment all filters must be complied in. * Integrate Kevin Hendricks affix compression code into Aspell. His code is already in use in OpenOffice as part of the lingucomponent component. More information can be found at http:/ /whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/dictionary.html. The latest version of his code is also available there. However, this is being put on hold until RMS gives me the all clear due to potential LGPL incompatibilities in the license of his code. -- http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org _______________________________________________ Aspell-announce mailing list Aspell-announce@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-announce