Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer

[Yu Jin]

Am Fr., 30. Okt. 2020 um 20:13 Uhr schrieb Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org>:

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 07:48:39PM +0100, Yu Jin wrote:
> > > > Actually I remember my first attempts to work with LyX, I asked
> google
> > > and
> > > > found it pretty quickly.
> > > >
> > > > Btw. by default following dicts are included in the installer on
> Windows:
> > > > de_DE
> > > > en_GB
> > > > en_US
> > > > es_ES
> > > > es_MX
> > > > fr_FR
> > >
> > > Do you have an estimate what would be the difference in installer size
> if
> > > we included all dicts?
> > >
> >
> > you mean all from
> https://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyxsvn/dictionaries/trunk
>
> That's what I meant.
>
> > There is 300+ MB thesaurus and 240 MB dictionaries unpacked.
>
> That's too much. Sorry for my naive questions below, but I have no idea
> how the installer looks like now:
> Is user allowed to select the dictionaries? Do we download them in that
> case from our repo at lyx.org?
>

The installer has the above default dictionaries already packed into it,
they can't be unselected. If I were to change that, it is not trivial to
pack files into an NSIS installer and then *not* unpack them during
installation. It is possible as I have just learned, why though IMHO? I
doubt that someone uses 70 out of 80 dicts, it is more likely that someone
needs 10 out of 80 dicts and then it is easier to just download the 10
dicts than download a larger installer and then deselect 70 of the dicts.
As for the optional dictionaries they are downloaded directly from svn
through trac, e.g.:
https://www.lyx.org/trac/export/HEAD/lyxsvn/dictionaries/trunk/dicts/de_DE.aff
.

Btw. Can we start a new thread for the discussion about spellcheck
defaults? it is getting messy in here :)
-- 
    Eugene
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