Re: Plan of stardict
> I had already pack the latest version of stardict but it doesn't
> contains any dictionaries. To make it can be usable ASAP.
> I planned to modify existing dictd dictionary packages (e.g.
> dict-wn, dict-gcide, dict-freedict-*) to make them produce
> one more binary package which contain the stardict format of
> the dictionaries. After finish those non-problematic dictionaries,
> I will start to process the problematic dictionaries in debian-legal
I think this is the wrong solution. The dict protocol has been
standardized in an RFC; not only is the client-server model
used in that more flexible than anything that requires local
copies of data, it's the standard and it's easier if everything
supports one standard.
Assuming you're committed to stardict, a data-centric approach
is still called for here. There are more than 75 MB of dict-* packages
in Debian. I find it very inappropriate to duplicate all that data
in a different format on every mirror and CD and some hard drives.
If you want to use that data in stardict, why don't you patch stardict
to support the formats used? New indexes could be built if necessary,
but the core data is way, way too large to duplicate like this.
David Starner - dvdeug@debian.org
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