On 4/3/12 7:52 PM, John Beardmore wrote: > On 03/04/2012 18:45, Craig Bradney wrote: >> On 4/3/12 4:18 PM, John Beardmore wrote: >>> On 03/04/2012 09:13, Keith Abraham wrote: >>> >>>> I filed a bug report for the non functioning spellchecker (#0010511) >>>> some time ago but it seems to languishing in a dark corner. Hopefully >>>> the devs will tackle it soon. >>> >>> I can understand that it's a non trivial problem, especially as windows >>> doesn't support the >>> preferred external spell checker. It would still be really useful though. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, J/. >> >> aspell doesnt want to relocate properly on OSX so we cannot re-distribute >> it. If you build manually >> on OSX you can get aspell functionality working ok. >> >> There's bug 8291 for switching to enchant but the person who submitted the >> patch has had not time to >> make it work properly.. maybe one day. > > So given that windows would really need a completely different mechanism, > what would be appropriate > and are there any > candidates ? >
Why would windows need a different mechanism? Not only do I not see why we would need a different mechanism, but enchant is (was?) supposed to interface to the natively installed system under Windows, Linux or OSX, etc. Craig
