Re: tsearch2 patch for 7.4.1

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Teodor Sigaev wrote:

> No problem, dictionary with support of compounds will be avaliable as separate
> contrib module from our site till 7.5.

Hmm, I think better not to introduce another dictionary, which require
additional efforts to configure tsearch2, but maintain whole module
with new ispell dictionary builtin.

Oleg

>
>
> Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > Tom Lane kirjutas N, 20.11.2003 kell 17:18:
> >
> >>Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su> writes:
> >>
> >>>we have a patch for contrib/tsearch2 we'd like to commit for 7.4.1.
> >>>Is it ok ?
> >>
> >>>We added support for compound words using ispell dictionaries.
> >>>It's rather important feature for agglutinative languages like
> >>>german, norwegian (tested). This work was sponsored by ABC Startsiden
> >>>(www.startsiden.no).
> >>
> >>This strikes me as a feature addition, and therefore not appropriate for
> >>the 7.4 branch.  You should only commit bug fixes into stable branches,
> >>not feature additions.
> >
> >
> > Is this so even for contrib ?
> >
> > I seem to remember that there have been new feature popping up in
> > contrib in stable branches earlier.
> >
> > But if the general direction is to stabilise contrib as well, what about
> > committing it as a separate patch file
> > contrib/tsearch2/patches/compond-words-patch.1 , so that these people
> > (or german/norvegian linux distributors) who consider lack of support
> > for compound words a bug can apply it themselves before building ?
> >
> > ---------------
> > Hannu
> >
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>
Regards,    Oleg
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