[Dict-common-dev] Re: Including aspell pwli files in the dict-common policy?

[Agustín Martín Domingo]

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> 
> It seems that you have accumulated a quite large knowledge about aspell
> (larger than mine, anyway, which is almost inexistent). 

My knowledge of aspell is more shallow than seems. As a matter of fact 
it has been this week (or the one before?) the first time I took a 
glance to the aspell manual. I was lucky and found easily the 
information I wanted.

> Once the specific
> needs for the aspell support are identified, I would gladly contribute with
> the implementation.

Wonderful, thanks. From what I have seen, since aspell does not set a 
default the way ispell or wordlists do, things should be much simpler, 
dealing only with policy issues, regions-to-spelling.map regeneration 
and may be the use of a debhelper like helper. But I still need to think 
more on all this.
> 
> If the sid version of dictionaries-common comes out with complete aspell
> support, that will be a big win.
> 

Or at least with a set of things all aspell dict packages must fit. I 
think this should be our first priority with respect to aspell.

What a complete support is depends on what Peter and Domenico think 
about that. There are some questions for them:

- ispell packages must provide an 'info-file' that is stored in a perl
   database. Their values are retrieved for selection of default
   dictionary (not needed for aspell), generation of emacsen+jed+mutt
   support and automatic rebuilding of the pspell
   regions-to-spelling.map file. When the installdeb-ispell helper is
   used when building the package this file is also used for building and
   installing a pwli file and the helper also adds the corresponding
   debhelper snippet to update the perl database once the package is
   installed or removed.
   ¿Would it worth a similar scheme for aspell dicts? I think this would
   help automating building of the regions-to-spelling.map file. The use
   of the debhelper like build helper is also useful.

- I really have no idea about how can aspell be used under emacs and how
   it will interact with the redefinition of the menus we do. Any hint?

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