[sylpheed:33859] Re: windows version question

[Bruce Bowler]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:06:39 +0900
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp> put fingers to keyboard and said:

> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:48:51 -0400
> Bruce Bowler <bbowler at bigelow.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:55:13 +0100
> > Stefaan A Eeckels <Stefaan.Eeckels at ecc.lu> put fingers to keyboard
> > and said:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:33:01 -0500
> > > Bruce Bowler <bbowler at bigelow.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > What is the likelyhood of ever (ok, ever is a long long time,
> > > > how about in the near future) of getting a pre-built windows
> > > > version that has a spell checker integrated and/or ldap support?
> > > 
> > > I second the request for a spell checker and LDAP. Especially the
> > > absence of a spell checker in the Windows version has lost
> > > Sylpheed quite a few users over here.
> > 
> > Not attempting to beat a dead horse, but I was just googling
> > something else related to sylpheed and came across a question in
> > September 2006 (message #30017) asking for windows spell checking,
> > so it's a *long standing* request (that's not even on the TODO list
> > at the website )-:
> > 
> > Hiro, is there anything we, as users, can do to help spur along
> > development of a version for windows that includes spell checking
> > as a built in feature (personally, I'm not interested in claws)?
> 
> I want to know whether GtkSpell can work under Windows or not.
> (Sylpheed's spell checking feature uses GtkSpell + aspell/enchant).
> 
> -- 
> Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>

According to http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkspell/files/, yes, 
gtkspell runs on windows.  aspell also runs on windows.  and apparently
enchant does as well.

Bruce

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Bruce Bowler <bbowler at bigelow.org>