RE: [PEAR-DEV] Package Inquiry

First, I'd like to thank everyone for the feedback. I should have elaborated further regarding my long-term vision for such a package. As others have already mentioned, my intention is to create a plugable architecture (via the factory pattern) with a basic interface that all implementations must adhere to. I never seriously considered an implementation for the aspell extension, because it's deprecated (although a fallback command line implementation is certainly an option). As of this writing, the only concrete implementation I have is for the pspell extension. However, the sky is the limit here. One could have implementations for PECL enchant (as has already been mentioned), a Web service (Google, for example) or even a PHP-only implementation (although such an implementation would not stack up performance-wise I think). As I said, the sky is the limit here. The required interface would be very, very basic, perhaps two (2) methods, Text_SpellChecker::check() and Text_SpellChecker::suggest(). Implementations which have underlying technologies that allow for additional functionality (such as custom word lists, replacement pairs, etc) would be reflected in that particular implementation's API. I had also tossed around the idea of incorporating a simple caching system to minimize calls to each implementation's supporting technology (for the life of a particular object instance). Again, all additional questions and feedback are much appreciated. Regards, Bryan >----- ------- Original Message ------- ----- >From: bdunlap@bryandunlap.com >To: pear-dev@lists.php.net >Sent: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:32:34 > >I have a nice, clean object-wrapper for the pspell >extension that I'm in the process of PEARifying, >and wanted to get thoughts on the possibility of >making it an official package. > >Since, to this point, there is nothing similar in >the repository, I'd assume that the idea has >already come and gone. If there is interest, I >will provide links to source and usage examples. >If not, such is life. > >Thanks in advance for your comments and >consideration. > > >Bryan Dunlap > >-- >PEAR Development Mailing List >(http://pear.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php