Bug#473541: Make gnome-spell use Enchant instead of aspell

Sven Arvidsson sa at whiz.se
Fri Jun 6 22:36:00 UTC 2008


> Please apply the following patch:
> http://www.abisource.com/%7Edom/gnome-spell-enchant.diff
> 
> To make gnome-spell work with libenchant instead of the legacy aspell. 
> Enchant is a program that supports multiple spell-checking libraries 
> like hunspell, and provides support also for some languages that are 
> not supportable by ispell/aspell/myspell/hunspell, via eg. Voikko 
> library (already in Debian) for Finnish.
> 
> The patch is already being used in eg. Fedora 9 
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=426347), and most 
> importantly it would bring support for new languages in Evolution.
> 
> The patch works for me, though it needs running autotools to 
> pick up the new libenchant-dev dependency in configure.ac.


Evolution 2.23 doesn't use gnome-spell anymore[0]. It uses a wrapper for
Enchant[1] for all spell-checking needs. So once evolution 2.23 is
uploaded, gnome-spell can be removed from the archive.

Still, it would be nice to have gnome-spell use enchant for Lenny, has
anyone had a chance to review the patch yet?


0. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522153
1. http://www.go-evolution.org/New_Composer#News

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Sven Arvidsson
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