[Pidgin] #7875: Pidgin should add Aspell location to its App Paths Windows registry entry

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#7875: Pidgin should add Aspell location to its App Paths Windows registry entry
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 Reporter:  dcitron       |        Owner:  datallah       
     Type:  defect        |       Status:  new            
Milestone:                |    Component:  winpidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.5.3         |   Resolution:                 
 Keywords:  aspell crash  |  
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Comment(by datallah):

 Replying to [comment:4 dcitron]:
 > Replying to [comment:3 datallah]:
 > > To be honest, the solution I'd prefer would be for php not to ship an
 incompatible dll with the same name.
 >
 > Now you're asking too much :-P

 I don't think so :); it is an easy thing to fix and what is being done is
 clearly the wrong thing to do.  (Granted this is only an issue for people
 who pollute their system path with the php path, but I guess that is a
 common thing to do for the few people that use it on windows).

 > Is there some aspect of the incompatible version that Pidgin could
 detect and simply fail-and-continue instead of crash?

 I'm sure that we could do something ugly like detecting the specific
 aspell binary we want, but I'd rather not add hacks to detect this one
 specific DLL Hell instance.  I'd be more inclined to add a FAQ entry for
 the handful of windows PHP users who put it in the path and also use
 pidgin.

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