The Windows port of GNU Aspell is extremely out of date. Unfortunately I
have no time and very little interest in maintaining a Windows Port.
Thus I am interested in one or two people who are willing to step up and
maintain it. This will involve two parts.
1) Maintain an updated binary of Windows compiled with MinGW, or a recent
version of Visual C++, such that the binaries will work with Windows 98 or
better. In order for me to accept it as an official Windows Port I will
need to sign off on all the required changes. This basically means that a
binary compiled with VC 6 will not work since it simply requires to many
changes. However never versions such as VC 7.1 will work since from what
I understand there are far better in terms of standards compliance than VC
6 and thus don't require nearly as many changes. In fact I have several
patches to this effect that I hope to apply at some point.
2) Rather than creating binary packages for each of Aspell 86
dictionaries, work with me to create a way to compile and install Aspell
dictionaries from the source package. The reason for this is two fold,
one, the binary dictionaries will require constant effort to be kept up to
date, and two, there are a significant deal larger than the source
package. Since Aspell dictionaries are in a standard format it should
be possible to do this by examining the contents of the source package and
in particular the "info" file. This can be done with out requiring Perl
or even any Unix tools. The Aspell binary and preunzip-bin should be all
it should take.
If you are interested please let me know.
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