Re: new package: Joe's Own Editor

[Joe Allen <jhallen at datapower dot com>]

OK, I've removed aspell as a requirement and have changed the directory 
from /etc/joe to /usr/share/joe.

Here are the new files:

http://world.std.com/~jhallen/joe-3.3-1.tar.bz2
http://world.std.com/~jhallen/joe-3.3-1-src.tar.bz2
http://world.std.com/~jhallen/setup.hint

category: Editors
requires: cygwin
sdesc: "Joe's Own Editor - world-famous Wordstar-like text editor"
ldesc: "Joe's Own Editor - world-famous Wordstar-like text editor
Includes clones of several other editors:
 joe - Main user interface
 jmacs - Gnu-emacs clone
 jstar - Wordstar clone
 jpico - PICO clone
Editor has syntax highlighting, i18n support and works well
in Cygwin console.  Get 'aspell' for spell checking in JOE."

Max Bowsher wrote:

> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > On Apr 17 16:12, Joe Allen wrote:
> >
> > > One thing I'm not sure about: I've listed "aspell" as a
> > > requirement.  This is not really true- the editor will run
> > > without it, but I find it annoying when the speller is not
> > > there, so it's kind of a soft requirement.
> >
> >
> > It's kinda your choice as the maintainer of the package and the usual
> > result of including also optional dependencies is that you will get
> > less questions on the Cygwin list in the style of "JOE work but speeling
> > work not, help how?"
>
>
> I don't think including that dependency is a good idea.
>
> What if someone wants to use joe for editing source code? Or perhaps 
> just wants a small install, and has faith in their own spelling? In 
> such situations, the dependency would be very annoying.
>
> Max.