Packaging Firefox extensions (Finnish spell checking)
Christopher Aillon
caillon at redhat.com
Sat May 24 17:00:28 UTC 2008
On 05/24/2008 12:04 PM, Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
> The Voikko project initially started as the hunspell-fi project, but hunspell
> was dropped for now, because using malaga
> <http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/> gives better results with the
> Finnish language. If you're interested, please read
> <http://voikko.sourceforge.net/architecture.html>.
Actually, that page says the malaga backend is worse than hunspell,
lacking important items such as threadsafety and does not perform well
in comparison. We already have a backend which we deem to be the right
backend and it would be great if work could be moved there to help get
hunspell in order.
> One big decision maker was
> also the fact that someone called Hannu Väisänen maintains a big Finnish
> vocabulary known upstream as suomi-malaga, in Fedora packaged as
> malaga-suomi-voikko. This, as the name suggests, requires using malaga.
Right, this is the only reason that I can tell for using malaga.
Someone did the work for malaga, but not for hunspell.
> Voikko gives excellent results with the Finnish language currently, much
> better than any other free software implementations (myspell/ispell/aspell
> and hunspell, whose upstreams are practically non-existent currently). In my
> opinion Voikko is now working at least as well as the only proprietary
> Finnish spell checker for Linux I know, Soikko. So it's pretty much the best
> you can get.
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.
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