[Dict-common-dev] pspell, pspell-ispell, aspell and dictionaries-common

[Agustín Martín Domingo]

Domenico Andreoli wrote:
  >
  > pspell-ispell 0.12-6 hasn't make-ispell-pwli anymore. indeed it is
  > completely broken, since no ispell dictionaries know that a pwli file
  > is required.
  >

So old pwli are no longer removed. That is good, although may leave some
files behind. Otherwise pwli files provided by the ispell dicts and not
in the make-ispell-pwli file would have been removed each time
pspell-ispell is installed.

  >
  >>files is under the /var hierarchy, but may be I am wrong. Note that
  >>this would not be a problem in case of (c).
  >>
  >
  > indeed :)
  >
  >
  >>My personal preference is somewhat towards (c), since I find it simpler,
  >>but I would like to know other points of view.
  >>
  >
  > seconded. this would suffices for the needs of pspell-ispell.
  >
  >

Something like this may fit (partially borrowed from pspell-ispell README):

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
The pspell-ispell pwli file for ispell dictionaries:

All ispell dictionary packages must provide the corresponding
pspell-ispell pwli file for each supplied ispell dictionary. That pwli
file must be installed at /usr/share/pspell and named as

        <language>[-[<spelling>][-<jargon>]]-ispell.pwli

where <language> is the two letter language code, <spelling> is the
particular spelling when the language has multiple spellings in
different parts of the world such as English and <jargon> is any extra
informations to distinguish the hash from other ones with the same
language and spelling. <language> is always required while <spelling>
and <jargon> not.

Each pwli file contains exactly one line which contains the
full path of the main ispell hash, white space, then the charset, e.g.
iso8859-1, koi8-r.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


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