[Xapian-devel] Required Python version?

[Olly Betts]

I was filing some old mail and found this:

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:07:12PM +0100, James Aylett wrote:
> [R]eally we should be testing which version of Python we're compiling
> against ... pre-2.0 definitely won't work because the internal C API
> changed, and I suspect we may rely on 2.1 features in some way (__eq__
> vs. __cmp__ comes to mind).

Currently the configure test checks for Python 1.5 or newer (because
SWIG requires at least that).  Should this be changed to 2.0 or 2.1
or what?

Cheers,
    Olly