[Gramadoir-devel] Architectural changes for improved package availability.

[Curon D. <cw...@ca...>]

I've had a discussion off list with Kevin Scannell regarding the
possibility of some changes to the
Gramadoir architecture in light of the lack of available packages for
languages other than Irish on both CPAN and most Linux distributions.
Currently the only way of obtaining these packages are  from CVS (or
using an alternative online interface, as is the case with Welsh).

With this in mind I would like to expand the package availability,
possibly separating the engine from the language using the
Lingua::Gramadoir name space for the engine. My current thoughts are
Lingua::Gramadoir being a general interface to all installed languages
and Lingua::Gramadoir::Engine being the base class for language
packages. This would also allow backwards compatibility with the
current architecture.  Does anyone have any other
suggestions/comments?

The original idea (as mentioned in the docs) was "that an *end-user*
of the grammar checker would only need to install
Lingua::XX::Gramadoir and they'd be up-and-running". This should still
be possible by placing a dependency on Lingua::Gramadoir, then the
end-user will not need to be
aware of the changes.

Undertaking this change would make OpenOffice.org 3 integration
easier, along with integration into other applications (the new
proofreading API supports multiple languages using the same engine).

Curon Davies