bug#44318: 28.0.50; Problem with ispell/flyspell and ""enchant"" backend

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 18:27:32 +0000
> Cc: 44318@debbugs.gnu.org, dinkonin <dinkonin@gmail.com>
> 
>  I think it would be wrong for Emacs to do that, as that would put all
>  the eggs in a single basket, something that is not safe in Free
>  Software world, where packages become unmaintained outside of our
>  control.
> 
> I don't understand this: Emacs, to this day, is happy to import large 
> quantities of code from other project; let
> alone the option of forking/maintaining free software, which is one of its 
> great benefits. And because
> Enchant has such a similar interface to the other supported spell-checkers, 
> the cost of switching is low. For
> myself, I'd be more concerned with bugs or missing functionality in Enchant 
> as a reason to be cautious (i.e.
> I would want to see a phased transition) than about the long-term prospects.

We are miscommunicating.  My point is that if Emacs will depend on
Enchant and won't be able to use the existing spellers without Enchant
being in-between, then we will be in a dire situation if Enchant stops
being developed and bit-rots.  By contrast, with the current code, we
can always tell users to use aspell/hunspell directly.