On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 10:21 AM, rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> wrote: > No. Aspell should offer bindings for THE "Unity API" and the > respective "abstraction communities" are then responsible for > maintaining a plugin for their "abstraction" into THE Unity API. >
Your proposed "Unity API" (which I assume has nothing to do with Natty Narwhal's preferred interface) already exists. It's the C language. It's an abstraction layer between CPython, Pike, etc, and the underlying hardware. The C standard library has a huge set of utility functions like strcmp, malloc, and so on; by writing your code in C, you simply enhance the C library. Language authors make use of this enhanced C library to write functions to be called from that language. And I don't *blame* the PIke community; since I'm a part of it, and I'm quite probably the only part of it to need/want Aspell, I just write the facilities I want. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list