Re: [gtk-osx-users] Annual Updates

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Apr 6, 2021, at 1:25 AM, Andrius Rinkevicius <andriusrin gmail com> wrote:
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> 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:
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> I haven't pushed any of this yet so if there are any objections now is the time to raise them!
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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> 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:
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> <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>
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> 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