Am Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2010 01:08:39 schrieb John Beardmore: > Randolph Bentson wrote: > > You're in a better position to comment on why it's a technical issue in > > Windows but not in Linux. Is the spell checking done by invoking an > > external program or using an available library which isn't available > > in Windows, or it the cause something else? > > My understanding was that aspel is available for windows, (I even > downloaded it once), the lib can be redistributed in windows, and that > the windows .exe has to be compiled with the header for the lib. > > If it's as easy as it sounded a year ago, I'm not sure why it hasn't > become the default way of building it for windows. > > It's frustrating to have a feature that's so nearly implemented stay > 'just round the corner' for so long. I've been looking forward to this > since I got into Scribus at 1.3.3.9 !
The problem is that the Windows port of aspell is old and unmaintained (last update 2002!). Someone sent us a patch that allows for the use of enchant instead, but this patch needs some work to be able to be integrated. HTH Christoph
