gspell - a spell-checking library for GTK+ applications

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This is version 1.8.1 of gspell.

gspell provides a flexible API to add spell-checking to a GTK+ application.

The gspell library is free software and is released under the terms of the GNU

LGPL version 2.1 or later. See the file 'COPYING' for more information.

The official web site is:

    https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gspell

About versions

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gspell follows the GNOME release schedule and uses the same versioning scheme:

    https://developer.gnome.org/programming-guidelines/stable/versioning.html.en

For example the 1.7.x versions are unstable, and the 1.8.x versions are stable.

Dependencies

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* GLib >= 2.44

* GTK+ >= 3.20

* Enchant >= 2.1.3

* iso-codes

Notes for packagers

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At least on GNU/Linux, it is better to install hunspell. aspell can be

considered deprecated and doesn't work well with gspell. If both hunspell and

aspell are installed, Enchant prefers hunspell by default.

See also:

    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureDictionary

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ConsolidateSpellingLibs

Installation

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Simple install procedure from a tarball:

  $ ./configure

  $ make

  [ Become root if necessary ]

  $ make install

See the file 'INSTALL' for more detailed information.

From the Git repository, the 'configure' script and the 'INSTALL' file are not

yet generated, so you need to run 'autogen.sh' instead, which takes the same

arguments as 'configure'.

To build the latest version of gspell plus its dependencies from Git, Jhbuild

is recommended:

    https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Jhbuild

How to contribute

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See the file 'HACKING'.