Hi Stephen, on Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:41:17 -0500 "Stephen Simmons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hellllpppp! does anybody know what's going on here? the php docs (and > everything else that i've read) specifically say that in order to use aspell > spell checking functionality from php scripts, both aspell and pspell must > be compiled and loaded. after struggling with the unfortunate and absolute > lack of clear documentation on how to do this, i finally successfully built > a mod_php4.so (--with-pspell) and loaded it into apache. Relax. Pspell 0.12 and aspell 0.3x are not maintained anymore. GNU/Aspell 0.50.x (note the "GNU") and newer are maintained (although Kevin seeks for a new maintainer) > now i'm told that pspell is "no longer used with aspell 0.50. that may be > your problem" huh? the php docs say that *aspell* is deprecated. Do you believe the author of GNU/Aspell that answered you hours ago, or a documentation of another package that was written days/weeks/months ago? >is that my > problem or not? should i go back to a previous version of aspell? will > "--with-pspell" still work when i configure php if the pspell libs don't > exist? should i just give up on trying to get this to work in php? are there > any plans for aspell to be usable from within php? does anybody care what > happens with this code? As Kevin said, although the Pspell library does not exist anymore, the new GNU/Aspell comes with an include header called "pspell.h" that lets you compile old software that was coded for pspell and that was not yet upgraded to use the new GNU/Aspell. The only difference, is that instead of linking against pspell library, you need to link only to the new GNU/aspell library (-laspell). If you want an example of a software that was upgraded to new GNU/Aspell and compare with how it was coded before, checkout Sylpheed-Claws. The differences in the code are only minimal and it was proved that it could even be linked to GNU/Aspell without modifying the old code. > from the scarcity of info on the net, it looks like there's a pretty small > community of users of this software, and it's painfully clear that kevin > atkinson doesn't feel like maintaining this code anymore (he's said this > himself) Yes, he's looking for a new maintainer. But the future of GNU/Aspell is not in danger: it is now a GNU project, with all its implications. > all i suspect i really need (see original post) is a way to let pspell know > how/where to find the word lists. does anyone know how to do this? where is > it looking? The dictionaries (read GNU/Aspell page about them), are located at the directory given by `aspell config dict-dir`. There are C examples if you want in the GNU/Aspell package. Cheers -- Melvin Hadasht _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
