developer is officially maintaining the package.
The rationale for changing this from "tech-pkg" to "pkgsrc-users" is
that it implies that any user can try to maintain the package (by
submitting patches to the mailing list). Since the folks most likely
to care about the package are the folks that want to use it or are
already using it, this would leverage the energy of users who aren't
developers.
Format of .index files for 8-bit databases (not-ASCII and non-UTF8)
has been changed. This makes `dictd' backward incompatible with
8-bit dagabases built by earlier versions of `dictfmt', i.e.
`dictd-1.9.15' and later doesn't work with 8-bit databases
generated by dictfmt-1.9.14 and earlier. See ChangeLog for details.
If you use 8-bit database, rebuild them using new `dictfmt' like this
dictunformat db.index < db.dict | dictfmt -t --locale <locale> db-new
dictd:
- fixed: Function `dict_search_bmh' works incorrectly in utf-8 mode
on non-GLIBC systems.
As a result `suffix', `substring' and `word' strategies
may work incorrectly with UTF-8 databases
on such platforms (FreeBSD).
- fixed: In dictd-1.9.8 support of CYGWIN was declared,
but it was broken in later versions.
dictd-1.9.15 can be succesfully built with CYGWIN.
- fixed: `dictd' dies when client tries to obtain information
about virtual database (SHOW INFO <virt_db>).
- Every database specified in configuration file
may have its own "default" search
strategy (i.e. `.' strategy).
For this purpose additional
keyword `default_strategy' is implemented.
See example2.conf sample file and dictd.8 for documentation.
- When `-d' is applied,
debugging information is printed to syslog (or log file or stderr).
NOTE: `-dinit' option may show you a reason why dictd doesn't start.
If you are in trouble, apply it first (and -L or -s of course)!
- dictd works correctly even on platforms which do not support
`iswalnum', `iswspace' and `towlower' functions.
Dictd with utf-8 databases was slightly tested on FreeBSD4.{9,10}
-fixed: logging is directed when --inetd is applied
- `AC_FUNC_MMAP' is replaced for `AC_CHECK_FUNC(mmap)' in configure.in
As a result `mmap/munmap' functions will be used on CYGWIN and INTERIX
if they are present.
If you dislike it, use --without-mmap option.
dictdplugin_dbi plugin:
- new options: `all_char' and `utf8'.
`all_char' option is set to FALSE by default.
`utf8' option is set to TRUE by default.
Both are overrided by
`00-database-allchars' and `00-database-utf8' special headwords.
dictd/dict/... have been ported to Interix (MS SFU-3.0 and SFU-3.5).
It works fine as Interix daemon
with ASCII databases (tested on Interix 3.0 and 3.5)
NOTE: GNU make is needed for building `dictd'
dictfmt:
- new option --default-strategy. See dictfmt(1).
Approximate set of changes from 1.5.5 is:
* Plug-in capability is added. This helps to develop alternative
database formats.
* dictdmt is added.
* Suffix search improvements.
* UTF-8 support.
And many bug fixes as usual.
