Hi guys, > nowadays (<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365899#c20>), gedit > depends on Enchant for its spell checker plugin. This dependency can be > eliminated by passing --disable-spell to configure, but as spell > checking is a rather important thing this sounds like a bad idea.
This is right, on popular request we ported the gedit spell checker plugin to use enchant (http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/) instead of the bare aspell (http://aspell.net/). I don't see why do you think this is a problem. The spell checker plugin is conditionally compiled at the same way it was conditionally compiled when we depended on aspell. > > Maybe this new dependency should be listed on > <http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies>? > Note that neither enchant nor aspell are listed on the above wiki page. But if people agree, I'm all for adding enchant as an official external dependency. In this way it will become a sort of official lib for GNOME application implementing spell checking functionalities [1]. AFAIK, enchant is distributed by most distro, but I'm not sure it is installed by default. For example, IIRC, enchant is not installed by default by Fedora. Note that some distributions are not compiling the spell checker plugin. For example, IIRC, Novell is not compiling it. Ciao, Paolo [1] If people are interested, GeditSpellChecker is a nice GObject-based class wrapping the most important enchant features. GeditSpellCheckerDialog is a gedit independent spell checker dialog using GeditSpellChecker as backend. /me is wondering when GNOME people will learn to call gedit "gedit". _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
