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bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Dec 2017 14:04:03 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
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.
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, (continued)
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- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Basilio, 2017/12/21
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/21
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Basilio, 2017/12/21
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Tomas Nordin, 2017/12/21
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/22
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Glenn Morris, 2017/12/22
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/22
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries,
Glenn Morris <=
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/22
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Glenn Morris, 2017/12/22
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- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Basilio, 2017/12/22
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Glenn Morris, 2017/12/22
- bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries, Eli Zaretskii, 2017/12/23