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 E.6 Upgrading from Aspell .33/Pspell .12
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 Aspell has undergone an extremely large number of changes since the
 previous Aspell/Pspell release.  For one thing Pspell has been merged
 with Aspell so there in no longer two separate libraries you have to
 worry about.
 
    Because of the massive changes between Aspell/Pspell and Aspell 0.50
 you may want to clean out the old files before installing the the new
 Aspell.  To do so do a `make uninstall' in the original Aspell and
 Pspell source directories.
 
    The way dictionaries are handled has also changed.  This includes a
 change in the naming conventions of both language names and
 dictionaries.  Due to the language name change, your old personal
 dictionaries will not be recognized.  However, you can import the old
 dictionaries by running the `aspell-import' script.  This also means
 that dictionaries designed to work with older versions of Aspell are
 not likely to function correctly.  Fortunately new dictionary packages
 are available for most languages.  You can find them off of the Aspell
 home page at `http://aspell.net'.
 
    The Pspell ABI is now part of Aspell except that the name of
 everything has changed due to the renaming of Pspell to Aspell.  In
 particular please note the following name changes:
 
      pspell -> aspell
      manager -> speller
      emulation -> enumeration
      master_word_list -> main_word_list
 
    Please also note that the name of the `language-tag' option has
 changed to `lang'.  However, for backward compatibility the
 `language-tag' option will still work.
 
    However, you should also be able to build applications that require
 Pspell with the new Aspell as a backward compatibility header file is
 provided.
 
    Due to a change in the way dictionaries are handled, scanning for
 `.pwli' files in order to find out which dictionaries are available
 will no longer work.  This means that programs that relied on this
 technique may have problems finding dictionaries.  Fortunately, GNU
 Aspell now provided a uniform way to list all installed dictionaries
 via the c API.  See the file `list-dicts.c' in the `examples/'
 directory for an example of how to do this.  Unfortunately there isn't
 any simple way to find out which dictionaries are installed which will
 work with both the old Aspell/Pspell and the new GNU Aspell.
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