Re: [evolution-patches] [PATCH] Allow gnome-spell to work with pspell 0.12.x in addition to aspell 0.50

[Rodney Dawes <dobey ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 14:32, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 12:52, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > I am not sure if it will cause problems. The only place where it is
> > useful for me, is Red Hat 7.3, since I already implemented packages
> > for the newer aspell on Red Hat 8.0 and 9, before I knew of this patch.
> 
> What about everyone out there building from source?  Or on distributions
> not supported by Ximian.  Also, I would hope that this would make it so
> that you don't have to distribute new aspell packages on platforms which
> use the older aspell -- it leads to less long-term package universe pain
> and avoids causing problems in other aspell-using apps that people have
> installed.  

As I said, the only place where this is of use to me is on rh 7.3, as
I've already had to build aspell 0.50.x for 8 and 9. People building
from source, I would expect to have the knowledge to build things into
a prefix that isn't what rpm/dpkg/whatever uses. You ask for problems
doing that anyway, if you are intent on continuing to use the pkg system
anyway. But I have not tried your patch in all the scenarios I have to
build packages for, so I am not sure whether it will cause problems for
them or not. That was all my previous statement was intended to say.

> > There seem to be some crashes in 1.0.4 still with the new aspell, so
> > perhaps we need to fix those first before we put this compat stuff in.
> 
> What sort of problems (bug #s are great -- I only saw one that was 1.0.x
> from a quick look at bugzilla) and I'll try to take a look as well when
> I'm waiting on other things.

It is actually a crash in gtkhtml. Radek already submitted a patch to
this list to fix it.

-- dobey