[aspell-devel] Compatibility with aspell/pspell-legacy Versions

[Rodney Dawes]

Hi,

I am having a little trouble with aspell 0.50.x and trying to maintain
compatibility with older aspell/pspell versions. Red Hat, and other
distributions still ship the older versions, and have applicatins which
depend on those, such as Abiword. However, for the new gnome-spell 1.0,
which is needed by Evolution 1.3, I need to ship aspell 0.50.x. I have
created compatibility packages which contain the libraries to keep the
older dependencies in order, however, it seems that Abiword is no longer
able to do spell checking as it can't find the dictionaries. Is it at
all possible to have these things co-exist in a way that will allow me
to maintain the ability for spell checking to work in these
distributions, as I can't ship all of the packages that they have, which
depend on the older configuration? I have checked the rpms for missing
files, and it seems that everything exists, which leads me to believe
that the dictionary format has changed, and these are incompatible. :-/
What can I do? Thanks.

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