[Nix-dev] [PATCH] Add a package with DICT-formatted wiktionary.

[Petr Rockai]

Hi,

Peter Simons <simons at cryp.to> writes:
> that patch is rather large (26KB). I don't know much about dictd, so
> please bear with me if this is a stupid question, but why does this
> python script have to be checked into Nixpkgs? Can it not be generated
> or retrieved via HTTP somehow?
>
> It seems to me like this kind of thing ought to be applied upstream, so
> that everyone benefits from it, not just users of NixOS.

well, there is no upstream for this. Most of the python code comes from
a standalone dict server, but I don't see how my version could be useful
to that standalone server. The modified code uses dictfmt from dictd to
build a dictd-compatible database. The original code builds uncompressed
CDB files that are served using a simple python server.

I could put it up on my personal homepage, but I don't think that's such
a great idea.

Petr

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