Re: [aspell-devel] New Aspell C-interface

[Kevin Atkinson]

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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