Re: [aspell-devel] aspell C API

[Justin Ryan]

On Oct 19, 2004, at 5:14 PM, Kevin Atkinson wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Justin Ryan wrote:
>
> > The most outstanding example that I see is the DocumentSpeller.  I was
> > originally planning to write something like this in python, but now
> > hope to make yours available to python.  I noticed some other
> > undocumented structures which seemed as if they may be internally used
> > by AspellSpeller, AspellConfig, and DocumentSpeller, i.e.:
>
> If it is in the "aspell.h" header file than it is fair fell free to use
> it as it is part of the public interface.  Internal structures and 
> such are
> not exported via the "aspell.h" header file.

I was going to list some structures that I don't understand, but 
perhaps a general question would be more appropriate:

What sort of facilities are provided by libaspell, but not available 
via:

  AspellConfig
  AspellSpeller
  DocumentSpeller

I suppose I could wrap up the other interfaces without knowing what 
they are, but that seems silly.  I'm going to want to provide my users 
with docstrings more descriptive than:

"""
  I dunno wtf this does, have fun!
"""

;)

> > In any case, I thought that perhaps you guys could extend me a small
> > bit of help - at least with the DocumentSpeller class.  Also, I'm not
> > sure why - but if I try to do anything with the return values of:
> >
> >    aspell_speller_store_replacement()
> >    aspell_speller_add_to_personal()
> >    aspell_speller_add_to_session()
> >
> > Python dies with a Bus Error.  For the time being, I am discarding the
> > return - but that just feels like bad news. ;)
>
> I really don't know why also as the return value is just an int to
> indicate if the operation was successful.

Wierd - I thought the same, but am no C/C++ guru and thought I may have 
missed something.. Perhaps, if I have some time, gdb will answer this 
question for me/us.

> > If you could clear up a few minor points for me, I may be able (and am
> > definitely willing!) to help extend the documentation for aspell.  I
> > was also planning on writing a paper or article of some sort on the
> > trials and tribulations of developing this module. ;)
>
> I will gladly expect patched to the documentations.  Just be sure you 
> modify
> the texinfo source (*.texi).

Will do..

Cheers!

-=JR