[Xapian-discuss] Xapian 1.2.3 released

[Menard, Daniel]

Of course, you're right! VS2005 is old and moving to VC9 is the thing to do.
And I will be very happy if you manage to build a VC9 version for php 5.3 ;-)

Daniel

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : xapian-discuss-bounces at lists.xapian.org [mailto:xapian-discuss-
> bounces at lists.xapian.org] De la part de Charlie Hull
> Envoyé : mercredi 1 septembre 2010 17:22
> À : Xapian Discussion
> Objet : Re: [Xapian-discuss] Xapian 1.2.3 released
> 
> On 01/09/2010 16:09, Menard, Daniel wrote:
> >> Windows build files and binaries are now at the usual place:
> >> http://www.flax.co.uk/xapian_binaries
> >
> > Thanks Charlie! As usual, this is highly appreciated!
> >
> >
> >> Notable changes are support for Python 2.7 and the use of Microsoft
> >> Visual Studio 2008 to build the binaries over the 2005 version.
> >
> > The move to VS2008 (VC9) is a good one, but this involves, for a php
> > user like me, to completely replace the http stack used (finding VC9
> > binaries for apache, for apache modules, for php and for every php
> > extension I use) which is not so easy on Windows...
> 
> Oh dear - would you prefer it if I stuck with VS2005? It doesn't make a
> lot of difference to me to be honest, I just thought VS2005 was getting
> a bit old!
> >
> > By the way, do you plan to provide binaries for php 5.3 in the future?
> > I see that php_xapian.dll is still linked against php 5.2 but it is not
> > active anymore [1].
> 
> Yes, it's on my list, but unfortunately I haven't got round to doing it
> yet. Building PHP from source for Windows is the first step, and this
> can be painful. If 5.2 is becoming obsolete then perhaps I should try
> and get this done soon.
> >
> > In fact, do you know if Xapian bindings can be compiled against php 5.3?
> > I know about ticket #459 [2] but I'm not sure I understand it correctly:
> > IIRC, the php api version change with every minor release (5.1, 5.2,
> > 5.3...) so it is normal that a binary for php 5.2 can not be used with
> > php 5.3. I probably miss something!
> 
> It's not quite that simple, the module API has changed: I believe
> previously modules for one version would work with another. In any case
> it will mean we have to create separate binaries for 5.3.
> 
> Charlie
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > [1] http://www.php.net/archive/2010.php#id2010-07-22-1
> > [2] http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/459
> >
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