---
- branch: MAIN
  date: Sun Apr 28 09:47:24 UTC 2024
  files:
  - new: '1.39'
    old: '1.38'
    path: pkgsrc/textproc/enchant2/Makefile
    pathrev: pkgsrc/textproc/enchant2/Makefile@1.39
    type: modified
  - new: '1.6'
    old: '1.5'
    path: pkgsrc/textproc/enchant2/PLIST
    pathrev: pkgsrc/textproc/enchant2/PLIST@1.6
    type: modified
  - new: '1.28'
    old: '1.27'
    path: pkgsrc/textproc/enchant2/distinfo
    pathrev: pkgsrc/textproc/enchant2/distinfo@1.28
    type: modified
  id: 20240428T094724Z.b54fa2c9a2cf10aec230b8ccde31f95484d5aad9
  log: "enchant2: update to 2.7.2.\n\n2.7.2 (April 27, 2024)\n----------------------\n\nThis
    release fixes a bug introduced in version 2.7.0. when calling\nproviders窶�
    check methods, that could cause a crash.\n\n2.7.1 (April 25, 2024)\n----------------------\n\nThis
    release fixes some build-system bugs that crept into 2.7.0. Thanks to\nthose who
    reported them and helped me diagnose them. In particular, building\nwithout --enable-relocatable
    is fixed. Some minor long-standing bugs that\nrecently came to light with incorrect
    include paths were also fixed.\n\nDetection of the user窶å\x86± language has
    been updated to use a more modern and\nstandard method. This means that in particular
    the LANG environment variable\nno longer overrides the LC_ALL and LC_MESSAGES
    environment variables, and\nsupport is added for the LANGUAGE variable, which
    has highest priority. For\nmore details, see the documentation for the GLib function\ng_get_language_names.\n\nMinor
    code and documentation improvements were made.\n\n2.7.0 (April 19, 2024)\n----------------------\n\nThis
    release marks a major improvement in Enchant窶å\x86± maintainability: the\nmain
    library has been translated into Vala, a modern object-oriented\nlanguage with
    automatic memory management that, like Enchant, is based on\nGLib.\n\nDevelopers
    and packagers need not worry: this release is API and\nABI-compatible with previous
    releases (with some minor changes, noted below,\nthat is unrelated to the use
    of Vala), and you do not even need a Vala\ncompiler to build it, thanks to Automake,
    which distributes the C source\nfiles generated by the Vala compiler. The build-time
    and run-time\ndependencies therefore remain unchanged.\n\nThe library code is
    33% smaller, and the total code-base has reduced\nby 12%. Thanks in particular
    to Vala窶å\x86± more modern string and collection\nhandling, I anticipate it
    being much easier to add functionality in future.\nThe use of Vala may also be
    extended in future to those provider back-ends\nwritten in C.\n\nThe provider
    API is now declared private. No third-party providers have been\navailable for
    Enchant for many years to my knowledge, and the only new\nprovider in the last
    ten years, Nuspell, was implemented by Nuspell窶å\x86±\nauthors in Enchant. The
    provider interface has changed in this release; and\nof course all the current
    providers have been updated, including the\nstill-experimental Zemberek provider.\n\nThere
    is a small change to the semantics of dictionaries: in the past,\nrequesting a
    dictionary with the same language tag twice from a given\nprovider returned the
    same dictionary object. This is no longer the case.\nThis allows an application
    to have multiple active spelling sessions with\nthe same broker object in any
    given language. Applications that relied on\nthis functionality must in future
    keep track of the identity of spelling\nsessions themselves. I do not regard this
    as an API/ABI change, since it was\nonly documented in a vague way by saying that
    dictionaries were\n窶徨eference-counted窶�. This language has been removed
    from the documentation.\n\nFinally, a big thank-you to Eric Scott Albright, who
    wrote the test suite,\nand SIL, for funding his work. Enchant has an excellent
    test suite; one of\nmy first contributions to the project was to get the test
    suite running on\nall platforms, as it was originally written just for Windows.
    It窶å\x86± an\nimpressive set of tests that covers a huge range of normal and
    edge cases,\nand has often saved me before now; but it has never been more valuable
    than\nwhen rewriting the entire core library. Hopefully it has kept the number
    of\nnew bugs I窶å\x86µe introduced to a minimum!\n"
  module: pkgsrc
  subject: 'CVS commit: pkgsrc/textproc/enchant2'
  unixtime: '1714297644'
  user: wiz