Re: svn commit: r12717 - in trunk: . build/ac-macros build/generatorsubversion/bindings/swigsubversion/bindings/swig/perl/libsvn_swig_perlsubversion/bindings/swig/perl/native subversion/bindings/sw

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Max Bowsher wrote:

> David Summers wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> >
> >> --On Friday, January 14, 2005 6:33 PM +0000 Philip Martin
> >> <philip@codematters.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>> It appears that SWIG 1.3.24 is not compatible with Python2.1, I get a
> >>> runtime error:
> >>
> >> IIRC, we were previously ensuring that Python 1.5 worked with the SWIG
> >> bindings. Do we mean to bump everyone up to Python 2.2 as well? --
> >> justin
> >>
> >
> > Note: If this were to happen it would leave the RedHat 7.3 users
> > behind without upgrading the python packages which are normally deeply
> > intertwined with other packages. RedHat 7.3 uses python 1.5.2.
>
> The bindings have been requiring 2.0 since before I joined the Subversion
> project.
>
> Our testsuite requires 2.0.
>
> Our INSTALL file documents that we require 2.0 to build from a svn checkout.
> (Although, we do try to keep the build generator working with 1.5.2, but
> haven't formally documented that we guarantee this).
>
> http://www.swig.org/compat.html claims that it supports all the way back to
> 1.5, and there is no mention of dropped support in the SWIG changes, so if
> SWIG 1.3.24 has really has inadvertently bound itself to 2.2+, then I
> imagine the SWIG developers would like to know.
>
>

Oops, forget my previous post, I didn't (re-)look closely enough.

RedHat 7.3 has a python2 package (python 2.2.2) that I forgot about, I
just did a query for python before I wrote the above email.

Sorry for the false alarm.

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