Nathan Grennan wrote: > Warren Togami wrote: >> Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. wrote: >>> The current version of Xchat is 2.6.0-6. Version 2.6.6 was released on >>> 17July. A release of 2.6.7 for Linux is imminent. >>> >>> The later versions support spell checking, which is a good thing. There >>> are configuration options that provide choices for spell checking >>> mechanisms. By default, configure will elect to link in libsexy if >>> found. libsexy will use enchant by default. >>> >>> >>> I built 2.6.6 using the src rpm from 2.6.0-6. I used a simplistic >>> approach: >>> * downloaded the 2.6.6 tar ball from xchat.org >>> * edited the 2.6.0 spec file >>> - changed the version numbers >>> - stripped out all of the patches [:-)] >>> >>> Builds and runs fine. >>> >> >> We'd certainly like to have the latest versions of this in FC. >> However caillon is currently too busy to maintain this package. We >> would be happy for help in updating the package, but simply stripping >> out the patches is not acceptable. >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201116 >> If somebody would like to examine each patch and determine whether >> they are still needed or not, please attach updated spec and patches >> here, and they can be included after FC6test2. >> > I am willing to do it. I have been doing it for myself for a while. Does that mean you *are* going todo it? I was thinking about doing it otherwise and I don't want us todo double work. >>> There is also a newer version of enchant available: >>> >>> enchant: 1.2.6 >> >> enchant is in Extras, and we are already well past FC6 feature freeze, >> so we cannot include it in Core for xchat to use. We may consider >> this for FC7. > It can also use gtkspell. Which is in core. Another option would be to > drop xchat from Core if caillon is too busy to maintain it. I am sure > that would upset some people, but seems practical under the circumstances. > Yes moving xchat to Extras sounds reasonable, then again since we advertise IRC as a support medium, maybe it should stay in core. Regards, Hans -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
