Re: ispell.el doesn't work any more

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 12:22:54 -0400
> 
> Now whenever I try to run flyspell-mode (which I use pretty much
> everywhere), I get the following backtrace:
> 
> Indeed, my aspell is older than 0.60, but it worked just fine until now.
> It's not like Fedora Core 2 is ancient.  It's not the latest and greatest,
> but it should definitely be among the systems that we still support.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
> 
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "aspell version 0.60 or greater is 
> required")
>   signal(error ("aspell version 0.60 or greater is required"))
>   error("aspell version 0.60 or greater is required")

This is due to a change I installed yesterday (per Richard's request)
which explicitly rejects Aspell versions older than 0.60.

I don't know why older Aspell's are no good for us.  Magnus, can you
please comment on that?