[SailfishDevel] hunspell

[Pekka Vuorela]

On Tue, 2018-02-27 at 15:35 +0200, rinigus wrote:
> For those who are interested in up-to-date hunspell, I have packaged
> it under https://github.com/rinigus/pkg-hunspell with the builds
> available at https://build.merproject.org/package/show/home:rinigus:k
> eyboard/hunspell .
> 
> Packaging script is based on https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/huns
> pell with the further split of development and tools packages for
> hunspell. That allows to get hunspell as a static library and build
> against it.
> 
> I wonder whether anyone has packaged more recent version of
> > hunspell than the one available at https://git.merproject.org/mer-c
> > ore/hunspell and on our devices? 
> > 
> > Also, it looks like mer repo contains source dump of hunspell. If I
> > remember other repos correctly, it seems to be the way for other
> > packages as well. Any reasons for preferring such model instead of
> > git submodules? Looks to be more difficult to update it to the
> > current version.

Looks like you made a PR for the update. Nice, we'll look into that.

For the record, some older packages are having source code dumps. Those
have been gradually migrated for git submodule setup for easier
maintenance and usage.