HELP NEEDED Re: updating Xchat and friends

[Warren Togami]

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.

> 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.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com