On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:47:21PM +0100, Steve Wolter wrote:
> On the positive side, I've a small C file here that provides a library
> interface that is binary-compatible to libhyphen. I'll write to the
> maintainers of libhyphen, check with them on my implementation (which
> even fixes libhyphen bugs), and make sure that libhyphen gets replaced
> if possible. There really should not be two libraries with the same job
> around, but unfortunately libhyphen is unmaintainable.
The libhyphen maintainers might disagree about libhyphen being
unmaintainable. Also, even if the libhyphen maintainers agree that your
version is better and can completely replace libhyphen, you should talk
with the maintainers/upstream of packages depending on libhypen, and see
if they might not use your library directly instead of using a
compatibility layer.
> The new version of the comment is:
> This library provides an implementation of Frank Liangs hyphenation
> algorithm, better known as the TeX hyphenation algorithm, for C++ and C.
> The algorithm is similar to the one used by libhnj/libhyphen, but
> handles hyphenation-free areas at the start and end of words correctly.
> libhyphenate1 supports English, German, French and Spanish out of
> the box, and every site with a TeX installation can distill its
> TeX hyphenation files for more languages.
> .
> This package comes with complete documentation for the interface
> and the process of pattern generation.
>
> Is that better?
Yes!
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>
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