[Pidgin] #9170: php/aspell conflict

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#9170: php/aspell conflict
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 Reporter:  jwm4    |        Owner:  lschiere    
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  closed      
Milestone:          |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.5.5   |   Resolution:  duplicate   
 Keywords:          |  
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Comment(by deryni):

 Did you not read rekkanoryo's comment? We cannot work around the issue.
 Did you not read datallah's comment? PHP has stopped shipping (from what I
 can tell, datallah correct me if I'm wrong) the incompatible dll thus
 allowing things to work without issue.

 Your claim is that somehow because PHP is more important we should somehow
 come up with a way to avoid incompatibilities with libraries we use caused
 by the PHP installer and that somehow by deciding not to work around them
 (because doing so is actually impossible) we are blaming people for
 something and that it should be our job to help users install someone
 else's software so it works with our software.

 You seem to be laboring under the belief that we have done something to
 cause this problem, we haven't, PHP has. The PHP installer has placed a
 dll which other applications may want to use a different version of in the
 PATH thus forcing the applications to get that copy instead of the one
 they might otherwise have expected, we didn't do anything here other than
 install aspell in a way that allows other appliations to use it and not
 require each application to install their own copy of it.

 At no point did we blame or criticize users for doing this, we did inform
 them that they shouldn't and instructed them to undo it (in ways you may
 consider unnecessarily harsh, but were not intended as such). I also do
 not share your characterization of the relative merits and statuses of
 pidgin versus PHP (but that is neither here nor there and only serves to
 color your outrage and not actually help the situation).

 Your tone in all of this has been incredibly angry, accusative, and
 confrontational and has only gotten more so as we have attempted to
 explain (yet again) why this is not an issue of our making and that
 polluting the system PATH is not a good idea (for reasons of application
 compatability exactly like this), something that is decidedly unpleasant
 and unlikely to engender responses that are not in kind.

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