From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: sdcv: Add new variable.
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:28:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873852fn9i.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150318122519.GB525@venom.suse.cz> ("Tomáš Čech"'s message of "Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:25:19 +0100")
Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker@gnu.org> skribis:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 09:39:49AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>Tomáš Čech <sleep_walker@gnu.org> skribis:
>>
>>> * gnu/packages/dictionaries.scm (sdcv): New variable.
>>
>>You pushed it already but I have some comments anyway:
>
> Oh, I took that there are no objections already. Sorry about that.
That’s OK, I just happened to have comments. ;-)
>>> +(define-public sdcv
>>> + (package
>>> + (name "sdcv")
>>> + (version "0.5.0-beta4")
>>
>>The policy is to provide only stable versions, unless there’s a very
>>good reason to do otherwise. Could we use the previous version until
>>0.5.0 is out?
>
> Previous version of this tool is 0.4.2, which is 8 years old, it won't work with recent compilers (it's their statement, not my experiment though), could suffer with allignment issues on more exotic architectures (ARM among them).
Sounds like a good reason. “beta4” suggests 0.5.0 will soon be released
though, no?
> I can add comment with the reasoning.
Yes please.
>>> + (synopsis "Command line variant of StarDict")
>>
>>Could you change it to be self-contained–i.e., without referring to
>>StarDict (which I don’t know, and perhaps is not very well known.)
>
> sdcv stands for - StarDict Command line Variant
> This is where I took the synopsis from.
>
> It's hard to believe that you have never heard of StarDict. I'm not
> aware of any offline sotfware dictionary software which does not
> support StarDict dictionary format and doesn't state it's relation to
> stardict - be it GoldenDict, QStardict or this sdcv.
What I have heard of doesn’t really matter–hopefully I’m not the only
user of this. ;-)
Anyway, “StarDict-compatible command-line dictionary program” maybe?
Now that I try to learn about StarDict, I stumble upon this at
<http://stardict.sourceforge.net/>:
The original StarDict project has recently been removed from
SourceForge due to copyright infringement reports.
And at <http://sdcv.sourceforge.net/>, sdvc describes itself as the
“console version of [the] StarDict program”, which is not
confidence-inspiring. Some files such as dictziplib.cpp do indeed seem
to come from StarDict.
Could you check if you can find more information? It’s in Debian and
not on <http://libreplanet.org/wiki/NONFSDG>, which is encouraging.
> Is this satisfactory?:
> "Sdcv is command line dictionary utility with support of StarDict
“with support for the StarDict”
> dictionary format. For word in one language it can find translation
> in all installed dictionaries at the same time and without specifying
> original language.
What about “It can translate words from any language to any other language
for which a dictionary is available.”?
> With proper dictionary it can also work as encyclopedic dictionary."
“can also work as an encyclopedia”
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-18 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-16 9:18 [PATCH] gnu: sdcv: Add new variable Tomáš Čech
2015-03-16 9:54 ` Andreas Enge
2015-03-16 10:23 ` Tomáš Čech
2015-03-18 8:39 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-18 12:25 ` Tomáš Čech
2015-03-18 13:28 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-03-18 14:56 ` Tomáš Čech
2015-03-18 15:30 ` [PATCH] Revert "gnu: Add sdcv." Tomáš Čech
2015-03-19 16:02 ` [PATCH] gnu: sdcv: Add new variable Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-22 21:40 ` Tomáš Čech
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