Re: Please focus on one generic spell checker in Debian

[Per Olofsson <pelle@dsv.su.se>]

Hi,

Don Armstrong wrote:
> I have no idea if it's trivially possible, but it would be ideal if
> whatever spell checker we switched to had some sort of compatibility
> layer for ispell to reduce the number of applications that are
> affected by such a migration.

Both hunspell and aspell have such compatibility modes. However, most
applications simply call 'ispell', so maybe that name should be managed through
alternatives.

-- 
Pelle