Thank you all for the feedback,

Indeed the summary was a bit misleading, I forgot to change it after I
listed the packages. I fixed it now.

I also added that maintainers should decide which spellchecker they prefer
and migrate to that one (hunspell is not mandatory).

On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 9:48 AM Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 28 May 2023, at 15:44, Sam Varshavchik <mr...@courier-mta.com> wrote:
>
> Hunspell does not have a functionally-equivalent C++ API. It has a C++ API
> of its own, but it's targeted at applications that come with their own
> language dictionaries. Its C++ API is, basically, a lookup function against
> a dictionary file that the application also supplies, it does not have a
> C++ API that offers a convenient way for applications to run a spell check
> against the system's default dictionary. The way for an application to do
> it is to have it run hunspell itself separately, and talk to it via pipes.
> Hopefully, it's easy for the application to do that without leaking other
> file descriptors.
>
>
> I found the hunspell C++ API usable. See
> https://github.com/barry-scott/BarrysEmacs/blob/master/Editor/Source/Common/spell_checker.cpp
>  for
> an example.
>
> Barry
>
>
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