HELP NEEDED Re: updating Xchat and friends

Nathan Grennan fedora-devel-list at cygnusx-1.org
Thu Aug 3 02:16:08 UTC 2006


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.
>> 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.




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