From: Michael D. Pritchett (mpritchett@attglobal.net)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 16:05:32 EDT
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm sending this out as a "head's up" that I
> eventually intend to switch HEAD over to exclusively
> use Enchant. No one has complained violently to me so
> far about this. If you've got gripes, well, now's your
> last chance to have them listened to and considered.
>
> I don't intend to change anything until October 1 at
> earliest. This gives you guys about 2 weeks to settle
> things out for platforms != unix. I know that Enchant
> builds on Win32 using both MSVC and MinGW. It should
> work fine on MacOSX too.
>
> Note that Enchant currently requires Glib-2.0, as does
> the proposed switch to LibGSF. GLib-2.0 runs nicely on
> at least Win32, Unix, and probably QNX and BeOS too.
> Both sources and binaries are available for Glib-2.0
> on these platforms.
>
> Since we ship with a copy of Myspell and Ispell built
> into Enchant, we will support at least Ispell and
> Myspell "out of the box" on all our platforms.
>
> We *should* be able to keep using the current global
> Ispell dictionary directory, so that our users don't
> have any adverse effects by upgrading Abi. Enchant's
> backends query registry values to see where to look
> for things. We should be able to tweak this
> appropriately in our installer.
>
> Anyway, your thoughts are appreciated on this - and
> the sooner, the better.
>
> Dom
>
I disagree with the use of enchant on Win32 until the glib-2.0 dependancy
is abstracted out and replaced with Win32 specific libraries or the build
system is designed around both building of enchant and glib-2.0 for Win32.
Cheers!
Michael D. Pritchett
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