[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1] doc: explain steps for improved code spell checking
Thomas Monjalon
thomas at monjalon.net
Wed Feb 3 13:53:58 CET 2021
03/02/2021 13:18, Bruce Richardson:
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 11:30:57AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codespell-project/codespell/master/codespell_lib/data/dictionary.txt
> > + git clone https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell.git
> >
>
> Does installing via apt or dnf work as well? If we do install from package
> do we still need to specify the path to codespell as script parameter?
It depends whether all needed dictionary files are installed. Are they?
> > -The path to the downloaded ``dictionary.txt`` must be set
> > +There is a DPDK script to build an adjusted dictionary::
> > +
> > + devtools/build-dict.sh codespell/ > codespell-dpdk.txt
> > +
>
> Do we always need to have people build this themselves? Can we create a
> .codespell-dpdk.txt file in the repo and have that as the default value for
> the path if the environment variable is not set?
The dictionaries are frequently updated.
I don't really want to update them in DPDK.
The default dictionary from the distro is used by default (if installed).
In general, I think only tree maintainers and CI admins
have to install the dictionaries for better result.
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