Use Enchant 2
Enchant has a new maintainer and the project is again under development. There has been some API/ABI breaks in Enchant 2, but they don't affect gspell. Enchant 2 >= 2.1.3 is now parallel-installable with Enchant 1, so it'll normally not cause problems for Linux distribution packagers to ship Enchant 2 and the next version of gspell. See: https://github.com/AbiWord/enchant/issues/162 Strictly speaking, this is an API break for gspell as well, since there is the gspell_checker_get_enchant_dict() function that exposes Enchant in the public API of gspell. This function has been added in the previous development cycle for gnome-builder needs, but gnome-builder doesn't use yet this function. I've asked on IRC to the gnome-builder developers if it's fine to switch to Enchant 2, and they said that it is not a problem. So I prefer to follow a pragmatic approach, in practice switching gspell to Enchant 2 will normally not cause problems for applications, and that way the apps will automatically benefit from a newer version of Enchant (especially gedit which is currently unmaintained, so it's unlikely that gedit would have switched to gspell-2). https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790994
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