> On Apr 9, 2021, at 11:02 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>
>
>> On Apr 7, 2021, at 7:31 AM, Andrius Rinkevicius <andrius...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 7:08 PM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
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>>> On Apr 6, 2021, at 1:25 AM, Andrius Rinkevicius <andrius...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:13 AM John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>> I'm preparing the annual updates to the stable packages and in the process
>>> I'm making some changes that could break build scripts and jhbuildrc-custom:
>>>
>>> I haven't pushed any of this yet so if there are any objections now is the
>>> time to raise them!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi John,
>>> I would like to suggest to change a bit enchant build module - to build
>>> native Apple spellchecker instead of ispell and myspell it is currently
>>> buiding. I do not have any objections to continue to build ispell or
>>> myspell, however, in order to enable its functionality one has to add
>>> external dictionaries somehow (I never tried), while applespell works out
>>> of the box and uses native Apple spellchecker.
>>> Gedit is already doing this, and its enchant module is:
>>>
>>> <autotools id="enchant" autogenargs="--disable-myspell --disable-ispell">
>>> <branch module="1.6.0/enchant-1.6.0.tar.gz" version="1.6.0"
>>> repo="abisource/enchant">
>>> <patch file="enchant/enchant-gsize.patch" strip="1"/>
>>> <patch file="enchant/enchant-applespell.patch" strip="1"/>
>>> <patch file="enchant/enchant-relocatable.patch" strip="1"/>
>>> </branch>
>>> <dependencies>
>>> <dep package="glib"/>
>>> </dependencies>
>>> </autotools>
>>>
>>> There is one extra patch for applespell, and enchant-relocatable.patch is a
>>> bit different to what is available on gtk-osx repository. I have confirmed,
>>> gedit version works!
>>
>> Andrius,
>>
>> Sure, no problem. How about a PR on https://github.com/jralls/gtk-osx-build
>> or https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx?
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>> Hi John,
>> made PR to Github repository.
>> Andrius
>
> I turns out that Andrius was a little off-base: GEdit uses GSpell which in
> turn uses Enchant 2.2. Enchant 2.2 claims to support AppleSpell as-is. Even
> Andrius's own project, Bluefish, uses Enchant 2.2.
>
> Enchant 2 is about 3 1/2 years old and Enchant 1 isn't maintained any more,
> so it's obsolete. So, for that matter, is GtkSpell, which also hasn't had any
> love for 3 years or so. Hunspell's last release was 2 1/2 years ago and while
> there was a flurry of activity a year go the total is only 11 commits since
> and none in the last year.
>
> There's no module in Gtk-OSX for GSpell and nobody's ever asked for one, so
> I'm inclined to declare that spelling infrastructure is out-of-scope for
> Gtk-OSX; projects that need it are probably using their own modules.
>
> Can anyone make a convincing case to the contrary?
Update: It turns out that the GSpell maintainer abandoned ship earlier this
week, see
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gspell/-/commit/9ee66534fcca2f971461fb8dfe709e55fc118f84
Seems quite sudden. I could find no explanation.
Regards,
John Ralls
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