Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:58:04 -0700 From: Stephen Fisher <sfisher@SDF.ORG> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Why was ispell removed? Message-ID: <20141201205804.GB9933@SDF.ORG>
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I recently noticed that the ispell port has been removed in favor of the
aspell-ispell port ("ispell compatibility script for aspell"). Does
anyone know why it was removed? All I see on Fresh Ports is that it
was deprecated and finally removed in January of this year.
(The ispell script for aspell doesn't fully replicate ispell
functionality such as checking words on the command line as shown below)
Real ispell:
>ispell
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.3.02 12 Jun 2005
word: word
ok
word: ^D
aspell script:
>ispell
Ispell compatibility script for Aspell.
Usage: /usr/local/bin/ispell [options] -a|-l|-v[v]|-c|-e[1-4]|<file>
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