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Re: [aspell-devel] New Aspell C-interface
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Kevin Atkinson |
Subject: |
Re: [aspell-devel] New Aspell C-interface |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:18:26 -0500 (EST) |
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Melvyn Sopacua wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > There's a module in PHP which uses aspell.
>
> Don't use the Aspell module use the Pspell one.
>
> > It however breaks on the new Aspell, even if I correct the headername
> > and add libstdc++ to the libraries.
>
> Please use the Pspell module.
>
> > Will you include a new C-interface or will the author of the extension,
> > have to rewrite his code?
>
> Yes and No. The C interface is the existing Pspell interface. There was
> originally a C interface for the Original Aspell however that has been
> removed a long time ago in favor of the Pspell interface. The new Aspell
> basically uses the Pspell C interface. It should compile with most
> programs that use the Pspell interface, not the *old* C interface for
> Aspell. The actual *new* C interface for Aspell is basically the same
> for the original Pspell interface but a lot of the symbol names have
> changed.
I should add: However, using the old symbol names will still work for
most cases as backward compatibility defines/header files have been
included. There for making the new C interface for the New Aspell mostly
source code compatible with the Pspell interface.
>
> Sorry if this is confusing, but there isn't much I can do about it.
>
>
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