2021-12-01 11:13, Hussein Shafie:
On 12/1/21 10:49, Leif H Silli wrote:
If Hunspell supposedly cannot not run on the macOS/ARM platform, then
how come I am successfully using the Hunspell add-on together with XXE
9.5.1 - on macOS/ARM computer? Are you too rigid when you do not allow
us to install Hunspell on the macOS/ARM platform?
I don't see how 'hunspell--Mac OS X-x86_64.jar' and 'jna--Mac OS
X.jar' containing code compiled for an Intel processor could work on
an ARM processor.
May be you have installed Rosetta 2 and that this code translator does
its magic behind the scene.
Aha. I am not so updated about computer stuff that I used to be ... Yes,
indeed, I also run another application which - it turns out - is an
Intel only app. Hence, even if I cannot recall it, I have at some point
said yes to install Rosetta 2 - or else that other application would not
have worked. And this has to be why the Intel Hunspell addon works as
well.
We do not want to force our Mac/M1 users to install Rosetta 2 on their
Macs. Therefore, for now[1], the "Hunspell spell checker" add-on will
stay officially unavailable on Mac/M1. Sorry.
[1] See "Add support for arm-based Mac OS",
https://github.com/dren-dk/HunspellJNA/issues/20
Rather than waiting for ARM support in Hunspell, I would suggest that
the Hunspell addon should be offered to all XXE 10 users, but with a
warning that, on macOS/ARM, the add-on relies on Rosetta 2 to be
present. That way, you would not not force Rosetta 2 on anyone.
I will definitely give the XMLmind Spell Checker a new chance. But
please don't remove Hunspell from the macOS/ARM platform unless
absolutely necessary ...!
The "Hunspell spell checker" add-on may still be easily downloaded and
installed using the links and instructions found in this page:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/addons.shtml#spellCheckerPlugin
(A version compatible with XXE v10 should be released tomorrow.)
So, am I right to believe that, as long as we perform a manual (or:
local) installation, then it will remain possible for XXE 10 users on
the macOS/ARM platform to install the Hunspell addon in XXE v10? If so,
that would be a relief.
Moreover, we made changes to the XXE add-on manager to make it take
the macOS/ARM platform into account.
Unless we made a bug, the "Hunspell Spell Checker" will not be found
in the list of available add-ons when you'll use "Options|Install
Add-ons" on a Mac having an M1 processor.
I can confirm that Hunspell Spell Checker did not come up as an
available add-on.
Thank you for this confirmation.
But, now that you mentioned that Hunspell for XXE v10 has not been
released yet, I am not certain that my confirmation was worth anything
...
The XXE version number of the published Hunspell addon, is "9.5.1".
According to what I previously have learned, this means that that
particular version does not show up as available for XXE v10, regardless
of platform. If the XXE version number had included a "+" after the
number, namely "9.5.1+", then it would have been available to v10 users
as well. Hense my confirmation was simply a, so to speak, false positive
or at least: a false result. We must wait for the Hunspell v10 release
to check.
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leif halvard silli
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