[Xapian-discuss] Python 2.1 support

Philip Neustrom philipn at gmail.com
Fri Oct 13 05:45:26 BST 2006


As a python-head, I say drop it.  There have been massive changes in
the python architecture since 2.1.  Dropping support for 2.3 or 2.2
would be a mistake right now, however.

--Philip Neustrom

On 10/12/06, Ruslan Spivak <rspivak at nuxeo.com> wrote:
> В Чтв, 12/10/2006 в 17:50 +0100, James Aylett пишет:
> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:34:53PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> >
> > > While building debian packages, I've discovered that xapian-bindings
> > > 0.9.7 doesn't work with Python 2.1 (the current Debian stable has
> > > Python 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4!)  The problem is in SWIG and is easy
> > > to fix (I already have), but it makes me wonder if the time has come
> > > to give up supporting Python 2.1.
> >
> > Unless anyone pipes up who needs this support, I'm +1 on dropping
> > it. Python 2.3 was *much* better than 2.1, and as you say 2.5 has
> > landed now.
>
> +1 for dropping 2.1, it's a part of history already.
>
> Ruslan
>
>
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