Spellchecking dictionaries in LyX 2.4 installer

[Yu Jin]

Am Fr., 30. Okt. 2020 um 21:29 Uhr schrieb Yu Jin <yu_jin at lyx.org>:

> 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,
>
I was wrong there, it is trivial, I take it back.

> 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.
>
This opinion still counts though.

> 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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