Re: Spell checking with Gspell

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

On 2016.06.30 15:06, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> On 06/30/2016 02:26:42 PM Thu, Jack wrote:
> > On 2016.06.30 12:49, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> > > Hi Peter:
> > >
> > > Am 29.06.16 02:43 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
> > > > GtkSpell, which Balsa has used to provide inline spell checking,  
> > > > is not actively maintained, and can be replaced with Gspell[1]  
> > > > with no loss of functionality. Gspell is essentially the Gedit  
> > > > spell checker, and is also used by LaTeXila.
> > >
> > > That sounds like an interesting alternative!  However, it doesn't  
> > > seem to be very popular yet; Debian has packages for sid (unstable)  
> > > and stretch (testing) only, Ubuntu even not for yakkety.  So I  
> > > *think* those will rely on GtkSpell for the time being.  Apart from  
> > > the fact that Debian/Ubuntu still ship with Balsa 2.4.12... :-(
> > Gentoo has gspell 0.1.2 as stable and 0.2.2, 0.2.3, and 1.0.2 as  
> > testing versions, so I'll try to find time to give it a test.
>
> The implementation is based on Gspell version 1.0.2 API  
> documentation, and that's the only version I've tested it with. I  
> don't know when the API stabilized, so you may have issues with the  
> earlier versions.

That just means I'll start straight with 1.0.2.  The 'testing' label in  
Gentoo simply means it's a recent addition to the tree, and in general  
gets marked as stable in about 30 days assuming no bugs surface.

Jack