X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <1352318971.7348.19.camel@YAAKOV04> Subject: Re: git gui 1.7.9-1: "spell checking is unavailable" error message From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" To: cygwin Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:09:31 -0600 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTWLL ! On Wed, 2012-11-07 at 19:01 +0000, Matt Seitz (matseitz) wrote: > Is "git-gui" missing a dependency on "aspell-en"? > > On Nov. 5, I ran "setup.exe" and updated all "Pending" packages. > Since then, whenever I run "git gui", I see a pop-dialog from git-gui > with the following error message: > > error > Spell checking is unavailable > No word lists can be found for the language "en_us" en_US is the default, but if you chose another dictionary in the Options dialog, you would need that aspell-* package instead. There is even a "none" option there. So it's hard to say that git-gui really needs aspell-en when it's up to the user as to which dictionary he chooses. Perhaps a message: tag should be added to libaspell15's setup.hint to remind users to install the aspell-* for their preferred language(s)? Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple