Re: git: 7ebf6dfd8ddb - main - textproc/bsd-spell: A port of the 4.4BSD spell and derof commands
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 02:42:23 UTC
In message <202309280026.38S0Q59e073746@gitrepo.freebsd.org>, Koichiro Iwao wri tes: > The branch main has been updated by meta: > > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=7ebf6dfd8ddb5b85546d72cd96ee1f > ef6ff39cd2 > > commit 7ebf6dfd8ddb5b85546d72cd96ee1fef6ff39cd2 > Author: Gordon Bergling <gbergling@gmail.com> > AuthorDate: 2023-09-26 06:24:21 +0000 > Commit: Koichiro Iwao <meta@FreeBSD.org> > CommitDate: 2023-09-28 00:25:21 +0000 > > textproc/bsd-spell: A port of the 4.4BSD spell and derof commands > > spell(1) collects words from the named documents and looks them up in a > spelling list. Words that neither occur among nor are derivable > (by applying certain inflections, prefixes or suffixes) from words in > the spelling list are printed on the standard output. > > deroff(1) reads each file in sequence and removes all roff command lines, > backslash constructions, macro definitions, eqn constructs (between ".EQ" > and ".EN" lines or between delimiters), pic pictures, and table descripti > ons > and writes the remainder to the standard output. > > spell(1) and deroff(1) did not appear in freely redistributable BSD > releases for licensing reasons. After Caldera relicensed early UNIX relea > ses > the 4.4BSD version was added to NetBSD and OpenBSD. > > PR: 274098 With the addition of this new port, should we consider pointing ports the depend on textproc/aspell-ispell to point to this port instead? A binary such as bsd-spell's spell and ispell are certainly more elegant than shell scripts of the same names which call aspell. If we want both, should we consider an Mk/Uses script to allow users to choose? -- Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org NTP: <cy@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org e^(i*pi)+1=0