Need feedback/review, a big change in AbiWord2 port.

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:59:34 -0400, Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org>  
wrote:

>>> (06.08.2004 @ 1447 PST): Jeremy Messenger said, in 2.6K: <<
>> On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 13:53:18 -0400, Adam Weinberger <adamw at FreeBSD.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >>>(06.08.2004 @ 0209 PST): Jeremy Messenger said, in 2.3K: <<
>> >>Hello,
>> >>
>> >>I have maken a big changes in AbiWord2 port, what I have done:
>> >>
>> >>	- Force AbiWord to check/compile everything what apps that are
>> >>	  installed (headers, libraries, etc) from ports rather than check
>> >>	  and
>> >>	  use the stuff that are included in tarball such as wv, zlib,
>> >>	  libpng,
>> >>	  popt and etc.
>> >
>> >How much compile time does this save? Just curious.
>>
>> I don't know, never pay attention after over 20 times built AbiWord.
>> Depends on and use the ports tree is the right solution, IMO. :-)
>
> Agreed.
>
>
>> >>	- Change the default spell from Enchant to Aspell, because it doesn't
>> >>	  work at all unless you compile Enchant with the Aspell support. I
>> >>	  think, it's waste to depend on Enchant by default.
>> >>
>> >>	  Also, I have removed the check of Enchant. I prefer to see force
>> >>	  user to want use Enchant if they know what to do with it. I need
>> >>	  the
>> >>	  help on write the better comment in @${ECHO_CMD} about this.
>> >
>> >I disagree strongly with this. I think that Enchant is a great idea.
>> >Enchant isn't being utilized properly ATM, but it has the propensity to
>> >be a great leap forward in i18n spell-checking.
>>
>> What's your best suggest then? Force Enchant to compile with Aspell
>> support? This is the way that I will allow Enchant to be default. It
>> doesn't make any sense to have something that will not work by default.  
>> I
>> think, it's important to have the default that is just work.
>
> Enchant should theoretically work fine without aspell support. But, I
> think that Enchant should be enabled by defaultm, and should work
> out-of-the-box, by whatever means necessary.

Do you mean, you think we should change Enchant port to compile with  
Aspell support? If no, then I will not switch Aspell to Enchant for the  
default spell, unless you have anything to fix it.

>> >>	- Add the new WITH_HTML_HELP_BROWSER knob to allow us install the
>> >>	Help
>> >>	  docs. This cover the ports/66623, but I personal still would like
>> >>	  to
>> >>	  see use the DOCSDIR path.
>> >>
>> >>	  The vote is still open for if you dislike put Help docs in Makefile
>> >>	  and rather to create a seperate port, just give a shout.
>> >>
>> >>	  Vote:
>> >>	  ===================================
>> >>	  mezz   = Makefile
>> >>	  marcus = seperate port, unless Makefile doesn't turn into mess.
>> >>	  ===================================
>> >
>> >How much space does the installed documentation take up?
>>
>> I think, we shouldn't pay attention to the space as long we have the  
>> knob
>> option to disable the Help docs install. It won't make any difference  
>> for
>> Makefile w/ knob option vs seperate port. However, the size is about 877
>> KB (of tacos ;-).
>
> 877 KB isn't that bad. Plus, taco support should always be enabled. You
> got my vote for these changes.

Hehe, good.. :-)

Cheers,
Mezz

> # Adam
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>> ># Adam
>> >
>> >
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>>> end of "Re: Need feedback/review, a big change in AbiWord2 port." from  
>>> Jeremy Messenger <<
>
>
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> Adam Weinberger
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