On 3 Feb 2000, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> | Unfortunately my spell checker has two barriers against it being adapted
> | by mainstream Open Soutce programs. 1) It is written in C++ and all two
> | many Open Source projects are still in pure C. 2) It is written in very
> | modern C++ which means it is not the most portable thing in the
> | world.
>
> Perfect for LyX then.
But you want to maintain compatibility with gcc 2.7.2? My library uses
exceptions, rtti, template specilation amoung other things.
> | So, what I would like to now is instead of coming up with a interface
> | for just LyX I would like to come up with a pure C interace/library
> | which will use aspell if it is available and if not use Ispell.
>
> C is not good for C++ programs. (usable yes, but not good)
Do the other developers fell that way?
>
> | Are you up to working with me on designing such an interface? I will
> | handle the Aspell interface while I will late someone else handle the
> | ispell interface. I will also need lots of help because I have no clue
> | how to dynamically load code at run time.
>
> Why do you need to do that?
> Anyway look at the dload in libtool. That is more or less portable
> interface to different systems dlopen.
Ok thanks. I need to be able to load aspell if it is installed on the
system at run time.
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Kevin Atkinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://metalab.unc.edu/kevina/
