Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:25:57AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: You could maybe ask the AikSaurus author to include his small command line program in the distribution. This is after all the way unix programs work. You seem to be suggesting UNIX doesn't use shared libraries ! What if

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 27 July 2001 14:05, John Levon wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:25:57AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: You could maybe ask the AikSaurus author to include his small command line program in the distribution. This is after all the way unix programs work. You seem to be

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:18:34PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: Corba? Basically, it boiled down to if the external shared library SIGSEGVs, then my program bombs out. Using an external program, this isn't true. ok so that's 1 dubious reason for uglifying lyx's code ... john -- I'd rather

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:25:43PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: It is not the design philosophy of unix. Many unix features rely on programs and pipes, after all. even plan9 uses libs This just mean that we have to build two versions of LyX Kayvan has already said it's not a

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 27 Jul 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | So, would you please consider to apply the patch instead of arguing | wildly? I don't have write access yet. BS!, of course you have. Thanks. Unfortunately, I didn't think you'd move so fast, so I deleted the patch from my mailbox a long time

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:26:52PM +0100, John Levon wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:18:34PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: Corba? Basically, it boiled down to if the external shared library SIGSEGVs, then my program bombs out. Using an external program, this isn't true. ok so that's 1

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:25:57AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > You could maybe ask the AikSaurus author to include his small command > line program in the distribution. This is after all the way unix > programs work. You seem to be suggesting UNIX doesn't use shared libraries ! >

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread Angus Leeming
On Friday 27 July 2001 14:05, John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:25:57AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > You could maybe ask the AikSaurus author to include his small command > > line program in the distribution. This is after all the way unix > > programs work. > > You

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:18:34PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > Corba? Basically, it boiled down to "if the external shared library SIGSEGVs, > then my program bombs out". Using an external program, this isn't true. ok so that's 1 dubious reason for uglifying lyx's code ... john -- "I'd

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:25:43PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > It is not the design philosophy of unix. Many unix features rely on > programs and pipes, after all. even plan9 uses libs > This just mean that we have to build two versions of LyX Kayvan has already said it's not a

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 27 Jul 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | So, would you please consider to apply the patch instead of arguing > | wildly? I don't have write access yet. > > BS!, of course you have. Thanks. Unfortunately, I didn't think you'd move so fast, so I deleted the patch from my mailbox a long

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-27 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:26:52PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 02:18:34PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Corba? Basically, it boiled down to "if the external shared library SIGSEGVs, > > then my program bombs out". Using an external program, this isn't true. > > ok so

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: The patch has rotten a bit, but the conflicts were trivial. It was however a pain in the ass to get AikSaurus to work can you detail your problems ? I added the autotools stuff to AikSaurus, so probably screwed up some

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:11:04PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | Therefore, I think we should aceept the patch, with a few caveats. Can you post the rediffed patch? I'll post an up to date one with fixes. john -- My wife couldn't believe what she heard, so she asked the customer,

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, John Levon wrote: The attached patch uses libaiksaurus which in turn uses project gutenberg's english thesaurus. hopefully the library will support wordnet soon.

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, John Levon wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: The patch has rotten a bit, but the conflicts were trivial. It was however a pain in the ass to get AikSaurus to work can you detail your problems ? I added the autotools

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:56:09PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: Can't the AikSaurus support be added using an external program instead of using the library ? wouldn't it just add a load of ugly code dealing with another process' input and output ? (yes) and what would it win you ? You still have

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:00:11PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: The problem was that I had an older version of BZip2 installed. It seemed that version was too old for AikSaurus, but I need it for something else. Therefore, I installed the newest version of BZip2 side-by-side with

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:06:16PM +0100, John Levon wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:56:09PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: Can't the AikSaurus support be added using an external program instead of using the library ? wouldn't it just add a load of ugly code dealing with another process'

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 26 Jul 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: On platforms that support it we can dynamically load the lib... That is probably the nicest solution. I don't see why. You have to compile AikSaurus nomatter what. The stripped library has the amazing footprint of a full, whopping 32 kilobytes, or

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:07:00PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: thesaurus feature is left out. This is the same as a lot of other features we have, and IMO the only sensible thing to do. ... so can someone apply it ? dealing with Changelog conflicts sucks :/ john -- My wife

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:07:00PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: solve this problem. Therefore, the patch does the correct thing: It detects whether AikSaurus and bzip2lib are present. If not, the thesaurus feature is left out. This is the same as a lot of other features we have,

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:22:15PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:07:00PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: solve this problem. Therefore, the patch does the correct thing: It detects whether AikSaurus and bzip2lib are present. If not, the thesaurus

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:27:02PM +0100, John Levon wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:22:15PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:07:00PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: solve this problem. Therefore, the patch does the correct thing: It detects whether

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:32:00PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: I suppose we need AikSaurus RPMs for that. Hmmph. Point me at the sources and I will do this: 1) Create AikSaurus RPMs. 2) Change the lyx CVS RPMs to require the AikSaurus RPMs. I need to write a .spec file All Linux

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:37:34PM +0100, John Levon wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:32:00PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: I suppose we need AikSaurus RPMs for that. Hmmph. Point me at the sources and I will do this: 1) Create AikSaurus RPMs. 2) Change the lyx CVS RPMs to

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, John Levon wrote: > The attached patch uses libaiksaurus which in turn uses project gutenberg's english > thesaurus. hopefully the library will support wordnet soon. > > http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/ > > (the auto stuff is a bit screwed up, you might have trouble

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > The patch has rotten a bit, but the conflicts were trivial. It was > however a pain in the ass to get AikSaurus to work can you detail your problems ? I added the autotools stuff to AikSaurus, so probably screwed up

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:11:04PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | Therefore, I think we should aceept the patch, with a few caveats. > > Can you post the rediffed patch? I'll post an up to date one with fixes. john -- My wife couldn't believe what she heard, so she asked the

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, John Levon wrote: > > > The attached patch uses libaiksaurus which in turn uses project gutenberg's english > > thesaurus. hopefully the library will support wordnet soon. > > > >

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > The patch has rotten a bit, but the conflicts were trivial. It was > > however a pain in the ass to get AikSaurus to work > > can you detail your problems ? I added the

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:56:09PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > Can't the AikSaurus support be added using an external program instead of > using the library ? wouldn't it just add a load of ugly code dealing with another process' input and output ? (yes) and what would it win you ? You still

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:00:11PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > The problem was that I had an older version of BZip2 installed. It seemed > that version was too old for AikSaurus, but I need it for something else. > Therefore, I installed the newest version of BZip2 side-by-side with

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 06:06:16PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 07:56:09PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > > > Can't the AikSaurus support be added using an external program instead of > > using the library ? > > wouldn't it just add a load of ugly code dealing with another

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
On 26 Jul 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > On platforms that support it we can dynamically load the lib... > That is probably the nicest solution. I don't see why. You have to compile AikSaurus nomatter what. The stripped library has the amazing footprint of a full, whopping 32 kilobytes,

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:07:00PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > thesaurus feature is left out. This is the same as a lot of other > features we have, and IMO the only sensible thing to do. ... so can someone apply it ? dealing with Changelog conflicts sucks :/ john -- My wife

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:07:00PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > solve this problem. Therefore, the patch does the correct thing: > It detects whether AikSaurus and bzip2lib are present. If not, the > thesaurus feature is left out. This is the same as a lot of other > features we

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:22:15PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:07:00PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > solve this problem. Therefore, the patch does the correct thing: > > It detects whether AikSaurus and bzip2lib are present. If not, the > > thesaurus

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:27:02PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:22:15PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:07:00PM +0200, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote: > > > solve this problem. Therefore, the patch does the correct thing: > > > It detects

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:32:00PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > I suppose we need AikSaurus RPMs for that. Hmmph. > > Point me at the sources and I will do this: > > 1) Create AikSaurus RPMs. > 2) Change the lyx CVS RPMs to require the AikSaurus RPMs. I need to write a .spec file > All

Re: [PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-26 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:37:34PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 01:32:00PM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: > > > > I suppose we need AikSaurus RPMs for that. Hmmph. > > > > Point me at the sources and I will do this: > > > > 1) Create AikSaurus RPMs. > > 2) Change the lyx

[PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-24 Thread John Levon
The attached patch uses libaiksaurus which in turn uses project gutenberg's english thesaurus. hopefully the library will support wordnet soon. http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/ (the auto stuff is a bit screwed up, you might have trouble building the library on anything not linux) comments

[PATCH] english thesaurus

2001-07-24 Thread John Levon
The attached patch uses libaiksaurus which in turn uses project gutenberg's english thesaurus. hopefully the library will support wordnet soon. http://aiken.clan11.com/aiksaurus/ (the auto stuff is a bit screwed up, you might have trouble building the library on anything not linux) comments