[libvoikko] Strange bug in the interface between hfst-ospell and libvoikko

[Sjur Moshagen]

19. des. 2013 kl. 21:27 skrev Harri Pitkänen <hatapitk at iki.fi>:

> The problem turned out to be that libarchive, when configured with the options 
> that disable all dependencies except zlib, no longer supports deflate 
> compression. I repacked sma-20130626.zhfst with
> 
>  zip -Z store test-store.zhfst *
> 
> and now I can successfully use both hfst-ospell.exe and voikkospell.exe under 
> Wine.

This is great news.

> I have not tried this under real Windows and with LibreOffice yet. But things 
> are looking quite good to me. Using "-Z store" here should not be much of a 
> problem. The LibreOffice .oxt package can still be compressed with maximum 
> compression.

Did you see Børre’s post to the list yesterday about replacing lib archive + zlib with lib zip? If it is a working solution under Windows, it will have two benefits:

1) reducing the library dependencies by one more (just libzip instead of libarchive + zlib)
2) allow compression of the zhfst file

Børre has refactored the code so that one could easily use both zip readers with just a configure option.

The last point is important if libvoikko (with zhfst support) becomes part of the LO core: this will allow people to just download zhfst files (and put them in the right folder), and allowing compression would reduce the download size considerably.

Sjur