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Article #11935Re: Ideas for renaming non-GNU ispell
From: Thomas Bellman
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 11:08
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 11:08
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geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning) writes: > With the release of GNU ispell 4.0, it has become clear to me that > people are going to become confused about the two independent versions > of that program unless one of them is renamed. For historical reasons > (i.e., my version is based on that by Pace Willisson), I feel that the > GNU version should have the rights to the name "ispell." This leaves > me with the task of picking a new name. Maybe I'm a pervert or something, but in my opinion, the best would be to merge the two versions. That way we would get rid of the confusion, and we would get all the features at the same time. (I don't really know in what respects the two spell programs differ. And I have no idea of *why* there are two versions.) -- Thomas Bellman, Lysator Academic Computer Club, Link๏ฟฝping University "What sane person could live in this world ! Sweden ; +46-13 177780 and not be crazy?" -- Ursula K LeGuin ! Bellman@Lysator.LiU.Se
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