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

[Adam Weinberger]

>> (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.

> >>	- 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.

# 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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