Dear Guixers,

I was packaging an Italian dictionary for Hunspell, when I found this 
link listing all the Hunspell dictionaries supported by Libreoffice [0].

This lead me to think about a function for defining dictionary packages 
(very much based on aspell-dictionary from (gnu packages aspell)).


(define* (hunspell-dictionary dict-name full-name #:key home-page license)
   (package
     (name (string-append
            "hunspell-dict-"
            ;; Downcase and replace underscore in package names
            ;; to follow Guix naming conventions.
            (string-map (match-lambda
                          (#\_ #\-)
                          (chr chr))
                        (string-downcase dict-name))))
     (version (package-version libreoffice))
     (source
      (origin
        (method git-fetch)
        (uri (git-reference
              (url (string-append "https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/"
                                  "libreoffice/dictionaries.git/"))
             (commit
               (string-append "libreoffice-" version))))
        (file-name (git-file-name "libreoffice-dictionaries" version))
       (sha256
         (base32 "0vvxnjpm1322ahf9q8bqs1yhkn7krglw8c6yazcf7a3jljykd9k9"))))
     (build-system gnu-build-system)
     (arguments
      `(#:phases
        (modify-phases %standard-phases
          (delete 'configure)
          (delete 'build)
          (replace 'install              ;no install target
            (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
              (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
                     (hunspell (string-append out "/share/hunspell/"))
                     (myspell (string-append out "/share/myspell")))
                (for-each
                 (lambda (ext)
                   (install-file (string-append ,dict-name "/" ,dict-name ext)
                                 hunspell))
                 '(".aff" ".dic"))
                (symlink hunspell myspell)
                #t))))
        #:tests? #f))                    ; no tests
     (synopsis
      (string-append "Hunspell dictionary for " full-name " (" dict-name ")"))
     (description "This package provides a dictionary for the Hunspell
spell-checking library.")
     (license license)
     (home-page home-page)))


Do you think it would be worth to add it to (gnu packages libreoffice) 
to define dictionaries?

Cheers,

Giacomo


[0]: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries