[Xapian-devel] Required Python version?

Olly Betts olly at survex.com
Wed Sep 1 12:06:53 BST 2004


On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:55:07AM +0100, James Aylett wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 02:44:15PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> 2.0 as a minimum. I'm using __cmp__ / __eq__ tricks to get the
> iterators to behave like Python iterators, so not all aspects will
> work without 2.1; I'd be happy to require 2.1 though, because it's
> been out for a long time, and 2.0 wasn't around for all that long as I
> remember.

Let's go for >= 2.1 then.  I'll check the change in shortly.

Cheers,
    Olly




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