Add divvunspell support to Enchant

[snomos]

Filed here in lack of a better place:

We would like to have support for divvunspell in most Linux distros, and the easiest way to do that is to add support for divvunspell to Enchant, in the same way as (lib)voikko is supported, cf https://github.com/AbiWord/enchant/issues/259.

The arguments for doing this are as follows:

• divvunspell is faster than hfst-ospell
• we get support for the bhfst format (only supported by divvunspell)
• we get consistent suggestion behavior across all platforms we support

[flammie]

What's the current status of the things in examples / support? my first thought was to build on that based on some existing enchant provider code, it should be mostly the same, but the examples/example.cpp doesn't compile like so:

clang++ -std=c++11 -o example -Isupport/ -Ltarget/release -ldivvunspell examples/example.cpp
In file included from examples/example.cpp:3:
/usr/local/include/divvunspell.hpp:44:5: error: unknown type name 'speller_t'
    speller_t* handle;
    ^
/usr/local/include/divvunspell.hpp:96:5: error: unknown type name 'speller_t'
    speller_t* handle = speller_archive_new(path.c_str(), &error);
    ^
/usr/local/include/divvunspell.hpp:96:25: error: use of undeclared identifier 'speller_archive_new'
    speller_t* handle = speller_archive_new(path.c_str(), &error);
                        ^
/usr/local/include/divvunspell.hpp:100:9: error: use of undeclared identifier 'speller_str_free'
        speller_str_free(error);
        ^

[bbqsrc]

This example code predates the existence of the BHFST file format, so the headers are not synched. I can fix this if it's a priority @snomos?

[snomos]

It is not a high priority right now, but would be good to get going within the next couple of months. What is the expected time needed to fix the example code, @bbqsrc?

[bbqsrc]

Hmm. @flammie: you should be able to take this file and just use it: https://github.com/divvun/divvunspell-sdk-swift/blob/master/DivvunSpell/Classes/divvunspell.h

If that works, we can just update the example and move on with our lives. 😄

[flammie]

Hmm. @flammie: you should be able to take this file and just use it: https://github.com/divvun/divvunspell-sdk-swift/blob/master/DivvunSpell/Classes/divvunspell.h

If that works, we can just update the example and move on with our lives.

You mean it should work with current https://github.com/divvun/divvunspell/blob/main/divvunspell/examples/example.cpp or? Cause it still misses the speller_t for example. Or maybe the plain C version is easier?

[bbqsrc]

Yeah use the plain C version. If you want to add C++ functionality, you can wrap the C header with a C++ API that you prefer. 😄