New in 0.60.2:
* Added the `munch-list' command to the aspell utility. The `munch'
program in the `myspell/' directory will disappear in Aspell 0.61.
The `munchlist' script will also likely disappear or be replaced
when Aspell 0.61 is released since it doesn't work correctly
anyway.
* Several important bug fixes some of which rendered some non-English
languages unusable.
* Other minor changes.
New in 0.60.1.1:
* Fix bug involving checking of capitalized word when affix
compression is used.
* Compile fixes.
* Added an option to disable using the "wide" curses version in case
it causes compile problems.
* Minor manual updates
* Avoided including some unnecessary files in the distribution.
New in 0.60.1:
* Lots of compile fixes for various platforms.
* Miscellaneous bug fixes.
* Added Nroff filter thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff.
* The default filter mode when in pipe mode is now nroff for
compatibility with Ispell.
* Added Texinfo filter.
* Added a section detailing the differences between Ispell and
Aspell.
* Updated the section on thread safety.
* Other miscellaneous manual changes such as updating the To Do and
Authors section.
Changes since 0.50.5:
* Added support for Affix Compression. Affix compression stores
the root word and then a list of prefixes and suffixes that
the word can take, and thus saves a lot of space. The codebase
comes from MySpell found in OpenOffice. It uses the same affix
file that OpenOffice (and Mozilla) use. Affix compression will
even work with soundslike lookup to a limited extent.
* Added support for accepting all input and printing all output
in UTF-8 or some other encoding different from the one Aspell
uses. This includes support for Unicode normalization. Aspell
can now support any language with no more than 210 distinct
characters, including different capitalizations and accents,
_even if_ there is not an existing 8-bit encoding that supports
the language.
* Added support for loadable filters and customizable filter
modes thanks to Christoph Hintermüller.
* Enhanced SGML filter to also support skipping sgml tags such
as "script" blocks thanks to Tom Snyder.
* Added gettext support thanks to Sergey Poznyakoff
* Reworked the compiled dictionary format. Compiled dictionaries
now take up less space (less than 80% for the English language)
and creating them is significantly faster (over 4 times for
the English language).
* Reworked suggestion code. It is significantly faster when
dealing with short words (up to 10 times). Also added support
for MySpell Replacement Tables and n-gram lookup. In addition,
added basic support for compound words.
* Manual has has been converted to texinfo format thanks to
the work of Chris Martin.
* Reworked the build system so that a single Makefile is used
for most of the code.
* All data, by default, is now included in `LIBDIR/aspell-0.60'.
Also added a built time option to increment the major version
number of the shared library. This should allow both Aspell
version 0.50 and 0.60 to coexist. The major version number is
_not_ incremented by default as Aspell 0.60 is binary compatible
with Aspell 0.50.
NOTE: this is not true for pkgsrc.
* The code to handle dictionaries has been rewritten. Because
of this support for the dictionary option `strip-accents' has
been removed. In addition the `ignore-accents' option is
currently unimplemented.
* Lots of other minor changes due to massive overhaul of the
source code.
All library names listed by *.la files no longer need to be listed
in the PLIST, e.g., instead of:
lib/libfoo.a
lib/libfoo.la
lib/libfoo.so
lib/libfoo.so.0
lib/libfoo.so.0.1
one simply needs:
lib/libfoo.la
and bsd.pkg.mk will automatically ensure that the additional library
names are listed in the installed package +CONTENTS file.
Also make LIBTOOLIZE_PLIST default to "yes".
* Reworked url filter which fixed several bugs and now accepts "bla.bla/
kdkdl" as a url.
* Fixed bug in which the url filter was coming before all other filters
when it was suppose to come after. This solved a number of problems
where the url filter was interfering with other filters.
* Small bug fix in SGML filter.
* Added code page charsets, ie cp125?.dat.
* Added natural (split) keyboard data file as "split.kbd"
* Compile fixes for the upcoming GCC 3.4
* Removed Solaris link hack as it was causing more problems than it
fixes.
* Compile fixes for Sun WorkShop 6 compiler, but there may still be some
problems, especially with linking.
* Minor manual fixes.
Okayed by wiz.
changes since 0.50.2:
# Fixed major bug in pipe mode which caused the last character to be
chopped off words before they were stored.
# Minor formating fixes in the manual.
# Minor changes in URL filter to avoid treating the double quote character
as part of the URL, and to avoid treating words ending in more than one
period as a URL.
# Document fixes in Aspell API
# Small compile fixes, including one for GCC 3.3
# Updated Win32 section since a port now exists thanks to Thorsten Maerz.
# Complain instead of doing nothing or aborting for unimplemented functions
in Aspell utility.
# Portability bug fixes.
# Upgraded to Autoconf 2.57, Automake 1.7.7, Libtool 1.5 (no longer use
CVS version of libtool).
ok'ed by wiz@
We have halfdelay() in NetBSD 1.6M curses already. Also fix PLIST.
Bump PKGREVISION.
Per discussion with wiz. Addresses PR pkg/19985.
XXX: Operating systems other than NetBSD and SunOS don't have any
reasonable defaults set in devel/ncurses/buildlink2.mk.
This should be addressed!
- added buildlink2.mk for applications using aspell and pspell
- updated DESCR
Changes:
Aspell has undergone an extremely large number of changes since the previous
Aspell/Pspell release. For one thing Pspell has been merged with Aspell so
there in no longer two separate libraries you have to worry about.
Because of the massive changes between Aspell/Pspell and Aspell 0.50 you may
want to clean out the old files before installing the the new Aspell. To do
so do a "make uninstall" in the original Aspell and Pspell source directories.
The way dictionaries are handled has also changed. This includes a change in
the naming conventions of both language names and dictionaries. Due to the
language name change, your old personal dictionaries will not be recognized.
However, you can import the old dictionaries by running the "aspell-import"
script. This also means that dictionaries designed to work with older versions
of Aspell are not likely to function correctly. Fortunately new dictionary
packages are available for most languages. You can find them off of the Aspell
home page at http://aspell.net.
The Pspell ABI is now part of Aspell except that the name of everything has
changed due to the renaming of Pspell to Aspell. In particular please note the
following name changes:
pspell -> aspell
manager -> speller
emulation -> enumeration
master_word_list -> main_word_list
Please also note that the name of the language-tag option has changed to lang.
However, for backward compatible the language-tag option will still work.
However, you should also be able to build applications that require Pspell
with the new Aspell as a backward compatibility header file is provided.
Due to a change in the way dictionaries are handled, scanning for .pwli files
in order to get find out which dictionaries are available will no longer work.
This means that programs that relied on this technique may have problems
finding dictionaries. Fortunately, GNU Aspell now provided a uniform way to
list all installed dictionaries via the C API. See the file "list-dicts.c" in
the examples/ directory for an example of how to due this. Unfortunately there
is isn't any simply way to find out which dictionaries are installed which
will work with both the old Aspell/Pspell and the new GNU Aspell.
Aspell is an Open Source spell checker designed to eventually replace
Ispell. Its main feature is that it does a much better job of coming up
with possible suggestions than Ispell does. In fact recent tests shows
that it even does better than Microsoft Word 97's spell checker in some
cases. In addition it has both compile time and run time support for other
non English languages. Aspell is also a library however the recommend way
to use aspell is through the Pspell library as the actual interface to the
aspell library is constantly changing.
