The release numbering is imposed by aspell.net in the format X.Y for
major releases and X.Y.Z for minor releases. It is a pretty standard
numbering scheme, most projects are using it. Based on this version, a
number of Unix and Linux distributions are driving automatic updates.
Unfortunately, we cannot change it now without breaking everything.
Also, Fedora depends on this type of versions for automatic updates
(they grab the dictionaries directly from us, without going trough
aspell.net).

OpenOffice.org is moving away from the release format based on date. The
extensions are already using X.Y.Z format. You might still find
dictionaries in the old format on

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries

however, they tend to be old dictionaries. The main update mechanism
OpenOffice.org today is the extension mechanism.

This is something that might work for you. We have a version X.Y.Z on
the first line of ro_RO.aff file. We use this number for customer
support and to track GPL compliance. Given the version from ro_RO.aff
file, it is very easy for us to say this file was generated from this
specific svn version. I can easily add in the same file a date when the
the dictionary was created. You can use it to drive your release
numbering.

I guess the most important thing is to be able to reproduce a specific
user dictionary from svn and to fix whatever problems are reported. This
is why we keep the version in ro_RO.aff file under svn control. How the
various distribution packages are numbered is irrelevant, all the
support requests are still coming to us.

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Romanian spell-check dictionary uses incorect diacritics
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