PFC Aspell (was Re: spell and nano (was reply to cgf about gpl violation))

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Gareth Pearce wrote:

> Moving to cygwin-apps...
>
> (package for consideration - what is the real abbreviation for this? - the
> OLOCA is missing something here!)

As John has pointed out, the correct TLA is "ITP".  I've updated the OLOCA.
FYI, "PFC" is "private first class" in the US army (and possibly others).
:-)

> > I've asked for volunteers for aspell before with the typical resounding
> > silence as a result.
>
> Okay - i'll make some noise then...
>
> borrowing from the debian layout...
>
> http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-bin/aspell-bin-0.50.3-1.tar.bz2
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-bin/setup.hint>
>
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-doc/aspell-doc-0.50.3-1.tar.bz2>
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-doc/setup.hint>
>
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-dev/aspell-dev-0.50.3-1.tar.bz2>
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-dev/setup.hint>
>
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/libaspell15/libaspell15-0.50.3-1.tar.bz2>
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/libaspell15/setup.hint>
>
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/libaspell15/setup.hint>
>
> <http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gpea0679/aspell/aspell-0.50.3-1-src.tar.bz2>
>
> Some notes:
> Aspell is a c++ application - this means both cygaspell-15.dll and
> aspell.exe are huge due to static libstdc++ linking.  I'm thinking this
> could also potentially cause problems - but the program appears functional
> to my limited usage.
>
> This version of aspell isnt linked against ncurses - I'll look into this,
> but unless someone Knows how to do this,
>
> Aspell has no man or info files.
>
> Aspell is just about useless without a dictionary installed
> (I'm looking about to look into packaging aspell-en - the configure script
> isn't a standard configure script)
>
> aspell comes with two scripts - ispell and spell in /usr/share/aspell
>
> I dont know anything about aspell - I'm only going to do this so someone
> does rather the no one.
>
> I can't spell :)
>
> oh - and this is my first multipackage package - be nice ;)
>
> hmmm and i just noticed rlc's email messages - if he wants to take these and
> run - yay :)
>
> Gareth

BTW, thanks for providing this, Gareth.  I was just talking to someone who
expressed the need for this package...  FWIW, this has my vote.
	Igor
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