Remove meaningless defconst ispell-version

* lisp/textmodes/ispell.el (ispell-version): Since ispell.el is now
firmly part of Emacs, and the version hasn’t changed since 2003, and
isn’t used anywhere, remove it.  3rd-party code can better use the
Emacs version, or feature or function checks.
(ispell-check-version): No longer report ispell.el version.

diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
index 894e2eac057b4955c514dc86c50c33c48d488763..398e83e9d87599835d545113b9362e1cf179f038 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
@@ -671,11 +671,6 @@ here just for backwards compatibility.")
 ;;; The following are used by ispell, and should not be changed.
 ;;; **********************************************************************
 
-
-
-(defconst ispell-version "ispell.el 3.6 - 7-Jan-2003")
-
-
 (defun ispell-check-version (&optional interactivep)
   "Ensure that `ispell-program-name' is valid and has the correct version.
 Returns version number if called interactively.
@@ -710,13 +705,11 @@ Otherwise returns the library directory name, if that is defined."
                      (if (string-match "\\`aspell" speller) "-v" "-vv"))))
       (goto-char (point-min))
       (if interactivep
-         ;; Report version information of ispell and ispell.el
+         ;; Report version information of ispell
          (progn
            (end-of-line)
-           (setq result (concat (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min)
-                                                                (point))
-                                ", "
-                                ispell-version))
+           (setq result (buffer-substring-no-properties (point-min)
+                                                         (point)))
            (message "%s" result))
        ;; return LIBDIR or LIBRARYVAR (overrides LIBDIR) env.
        (progn