Re: [gtk-osx-users] Annual Updates

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Apr 7, 2021, at 7:31 AM, Andrius Rinkevicius <andriusrin gmail com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 7:08 PM John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us> wrote:
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> > 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!
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> Andrius,
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> Sure, no problem. How about a PR on https://github.com/jralls/gtk-osx-build or 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-osx?
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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> 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