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Re: A question for aspell-dict-XX


On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:

> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> >
> >> I just have a small question while I am preparing these packages: Is it
> OK
> >> to have a generic README for the four packages (and not a ~-en-~; ~-de-~;
> >> ~-nl-~ and ~-fr-~ which practically the same contents)?
> >>
> >> I'm doing a wee bit of hackin' on the generic script to get it to set the
> >> packages up correctly - it's getting confused by multiple dashes in the
> >> filenames. Would that confuse Setup too or does it use a more fine-tuned
> >> way of finding out what the different parts of the filename mean?
> >>
> >> (and: is my mail finally coming through or should I use by info at
> >> rlsystems dot net address to mail here?)
> >> rlc
> >
> > Ronald,
> >
> > First off, your mail got through (you can always check the archives).
> > Second, don't you think the README for various language packages should be
> > in that language? ;-)  Otherwise, I think a shared README is fine, with a
> > side-effect that if one package is uninstalled, it'll take the shared
> > README with it...
> 
> That's not so good. If the README is identical, couldn't it go into the main
> aspell package?
Well.. no. I don't think so: I'm not (and won't be) the maintainer of the
aspell package and aspell doesn't depend on the dictionaries to work (you
could easily install aspell and download, say, a spanish dictionary, which
I won't maintain because I don't speak spanish).

I could, of course, try learning spanish just to have some use for the 
dictionary.. ;) ... nah!

I think I should just rename the README for the language. It's not that 
big and I'll have it include file lists for all four packages..

rlc



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