Re: svn commit: r10037 - in trunk: build/generator build/win32 subversion/bindings/swig

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:53:32PM -0400, Russell Yanofsky wrote:
> We're talking about Windows only here, where installations of SWIG 1.3.19
> can hardly be considered common. The change doesn't affect any other
> platforms.
>
> And the point of the change wasn't just to "clean out cruft," it was to
> replace a fragile method of generating the runtime that relied on
> assumptions about internal swig files with a more robust method that used
> swig's command line interface. I could have kept backwards compatibility
> with SWIG 1.3.19 on Windows in addition to doing this, I just didn't know it
> was important.

Yes, but what about Windows people that have already installed 1.3.19.
There isn't a compelling reason to force them to upgrade to 1.3.20 or
newer. Just because Windows doesn't ship with 1.3.19, doesn't mean that
we need to force all the Windows users on the upgrade treadmill.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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