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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 20:33:17 +0200

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

Why would we want to make a change that gains us nothing at all, and
at "best" breaks old systems?