Another take on vim-spellfiles

James Vega jamessan at jamessan.com
Tue Nov 27 14:24:16 UTC 2007


On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:51:06AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:49:53AM -0500, James Vega wrote:
> > Since the current incarnation of our spellfiles packages are gathering
> > quite a bit of dust, I took a look at Vim's ftp.  It appears to have
> > pre-generated spellfiles available[0].
> 
> Haven't these always been available? I bet this was the place where the
> built-in vim plugin used to download spellfiles from ...

Probably, I just never noticed or made the connection. :)

> I would delegate the decision to ftp masters, but I don't think they
> will consider as suitable for main the generated spell files without the
> matching "sources". At best we can aim to have them included in
> non-free, which would be a pity.

Yeah, at that point I'd say it's better to just request removal of the
current packages and leave it up to Vim's plugin to download the
required files.

> This week I'm going to attend the QA
> meeting in Extremadura, and Joerg would be there. If you agree I can try
> to discuss this with him to gather some opinions on the ftp-master side.
> What do you think?

Sounds good.  In the meantime, I'll see if I can take another look at
the spellfile packaging.

Ideally, Vim would be able to use a library to access existing
dictionaries instead of using its own format.  Redhat is using an
unofficial patch to do this.  I don't see this making it into Vim proper
though since the author of the patch didn't follow up on Bram's
feedback.

James
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