[Xapian-devel] [Xapian-commits] 10367: trunk/xapian-bindings/ trunk/xapian-bindings/python/

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:25:46AM +0100, richard wrote:
> python/doxy2swig.py.in: Fix build with --enable-maintainer-mode
> and python 2.2, by providing fallback for the "textwrap" module,
> which isn't present by default in 2.2.

It doesn't seem great that the files we ship should vary so greatly
depending what Python version is installed.  Perhaps it would be better
just to say that --enable-maintainer-mode requires Python >= 2.3?

Or just include a function to which implements textwrap.fill() and
always use that.

Or we could just drop 2.2 support in 1.1.0 - perhaps a slightly extreme
reaction, but it's close to 5 years since the last Python 2.2 release,
and I can't see people conservative enough to still use such an old
Python version wanting to install a ".0" release of Xapian anyway, so
it's worth considering.

Cheers,
    Olly