Re: [gtk-osx-users] Annual Updates





On Apr 7, 2021, at 7:31 AM, Andrius Rinkevicius <andriusrin gmail com> wrote:



On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 7:08 PM John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us> wrote:


On Apr 6, 2021, at 1:25 AM, Andrius Rinkevicius <andriusrin gmail com> wrote:



On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 4:13 AM John Ralls <jralls 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?

Regards,
John Ralls







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