Re: aspell dictionary versioning question

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Andriy Rysin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> several developers recently organized a project to merge all different 
> efforts on open Ukrainian spelling dictionaries, i.e. aspell, myspell and 
> ispell. So now all three kinds of dictionaries are generated from same source 
> (also aspell was converted to use affixes which saves a lot of space). The 
> problem though is that we had to synchronize versions and they were 0.50 for 
> aspell package, 0.7 for ispell and 1.0.2 for myspell. So the next appropriate 
> common version would be 1.1.
> The question is if this is gonna be the problem if we want to put Ukrainian 
> aspell dictionary on aspell main dictionary distribution site?

You should use the new format as specified in:
   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-lang-20040810.tar.bz2
The new format allows any version string to be used.

Unless the expanded word list (ie without affixes) is significantly larger 
than the one in the Aspell 0.50 version you should consider proving two 
versions, one for Aspell 0.50 (without affix support) and one for Aspell 
0.60.

I will be more than happy to get you started.  Email me privately.