Re: Spell checking in GIO

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Tue, 2013-10-08 at 08:58 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> enchant depends on glib, so yes, a hard dependency on it from glib would
> be a problem. But enchant development has more or less stopped (last
> commit was two years ago), and if glib had equivalent functionality then
> enchant would be pretty much unnecessary. So it might make more sense to
> just absorb it into glib (which Dom seemed in favor of in that bug anyway).

Or perhaps follow the "glib-networking" pattern where GIO just defines a
spell checking interface and an extension point and the meaty parts with
the extra dependencies are supplied by 3rd party module(s).

"glib-spell-checking" anyone?  :)

Matthew Barnes