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

[James Aylett]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:38:16AM +0100, Richard Boulton wrote:

> > I'd rather deprecate 2.2 support at 1.1.0 and drop at 1.2.0.
> 
> I'm for dropping it now, actually.  It currently works (with just the 
> fix that I added above), but is showing signs of starting to become a 
> maintainance problem.  In particular, over the next year (ie, the likely 
> 1.1.x timescale) we'll be trying to support python 3.0 as well as 2.x, 
> which will be headache enough with 2.4 and 2.5, without having to worry 
> about 2.2.  So, we'd probably end up dropping it midway though a release 
> cycle.  Better to do it now, (and put it back if people actually want it).

Ah, that's a good point. Are we going to have 1.0.7? If so, we can
deprecate it / announce its deprecation then. If not, we should
announce to xapian-discuss soon.

J

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