Subject: bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:04:08 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Change this regexp in ispell.el:
>
>   "(but really Aspell \\([0-9]+\\.[0-9\\.-]+\\)?)"
>
> into this:
>
>   "(but really Aspell \\([0-9]+\\.[0-9.]+\\([-._+ ]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+\\)?\\)?)"

I see that the only thing ispell.el uses the numeric version for is to
test if it is >= 0.60. aspell 0.60 was released in 2004. Even RHEL6 has
aspell 0.60.6. So IMO ispell.el can discard the version checking
entirely, and just look for "really Aspell".