GNU bug report logs - #29801
25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: basilio <at> gmx.com, 29801 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 14:04:03 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> >   "(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?

Because it future-proofs against a class of similar problems, eg

 (but really Aspell 0.80~beta1)
 (but really Aspell 0.90 "awesome code name")

and because the old systems using a 13+ year-old aspell don't exist.

So why do a fragile check for information that isn't needed.

The amount of legacy crap in Emacs, and the refusal to relinquish it,
is frustrating.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.