Packaging Firefox extensions (Finnish spell checking)

[Ville-Pekka Vainio]

Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Don't confuse the dictionary with the backend.  So far I haven't seen a
> reason why the hunspell backend couldn't support Finnish as well as
> malaga if people would simply work on a dictionary for that backend
> instead. I think it is important to note our strong desire for making it
> work with hunspell.  We went through great lengths to make hunspell THE
> dictionary.  See
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary which this
> would now regress.

Noted, I can also mention this discussion in the Voikko mailing list. I wasn't 
even following the Voikko project at 2006 when this decision was apparently 
made, I also don't know the code well enough to discuss the differences in 
detail.

I know about FeatureDictionary and I have talked about Voikko, which is 
already in Fedora anyway, with Caolan, among others. At this point the thing 
is though, either we have very good Finnish spell checking in Fedora with 
Voikko or we don't have any Finnish spell checking at all.

Right now, as far as I can see, the Voikko project is lacking manpower for 
such drastic changes as changing the backend. They are doing a good job 
improving the current codebase in small steps, however.


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Ville-Pekka Vainio