Hi, I've made quite big changes to some Finnish spell checking, hyphenation and grammar checking libraries for F-12. I'll talk about them here in case there's people on the list who are interested in this stuff. Libvoikko is the main library for Finnish spell checking, hyphenation and grammar checking. I've updated it to the current release candidate of the 2.2 series. Malaga-suomi-voikko has the dictionary data for Finnish used by libvoikko and I've updated it to the current release candidate of the 1.4 series. The biggest technical change is that the previous versions of libvoikko needed libmalaga. Libmalaga is pretty much dead upstream and it has some problems, for example, it's not properly namespaced, which can cause symbol conflicts such as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/502546 Libvoikko 2.2 has its own internal implementation of the malaga functionality it needs, written in C++. This means the dependency to libmalaga has been dropped, but now libmalaga depends on glib2 for some string handling functions. Dropping libmalaga decreases the size of the packages needed for Finnish spell checking and should improve the quality of the code, maybe also performance a bit. The malaga binaries are still needed for building the dictionary data in malaga-suomi-voikko, but now they should be the only binaries in Fedora which link to libmalaga and the chances of hitting a symbol conflict or some other problem should be a lot lower. I'll keep malaga in Fedora as long as it's usable and needed. If there are people on this list who know Finnish and are interested in testing, these are the things you should maybe keep an eye on: - The libmalaga package should not be in a fresh Rawhide install anymore, even when installing the "DVD set" of packages and the finnish-support group is installed. - Nothing else than malaga should pull in libmalaga anymore (other than running yum-builddep on malaga-suomi-voikko, which pulls in malaga). - There have been changes to spell checking and grammar checking suggestions, if you see any weird behavior there, make a bug report at http://voikko.sourceforge.net/ -- Ville-Pekka Vainio -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
