new package: Joe's Own Editor

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Mon Apr 18 09:16:00 GMT 2005


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.



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