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Re: [PATCH] Encourage users to upgrade to SWIG 1.3.24

From: Daniel L. Rall <dlr_at_finemaltcoding.com>
Date: 2005-08-05 03:04:43 CEST

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005, David James wrote:

> > > There are also more severe issues with Subversion's support for SWIG
> > > 1.3.20 and 1.3.21, which have not yet been addressed. See <
> > > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-08/0053.shtml >. For this reason,
> > > I think it would be a good idea to encourage users to upgrade to newer
> > > versions of SWIG, if they can.
> > I agree with this, though. I think we ought to raise our minimum version to
> > 1.3.24.
> Great! If we are moving to SWIG 1.3.24, there is no need to discuss
> the problems with SWIG 1.3.21 in the INSTALL file. Would you be happy
> with my patch if I instead deleted the information on older versions
> of SWIG? I can also patch the swig.m4 file to disallow SWIG 1.3.19
> through 1.3.21, if you think this is a good idea.
>
> On the python-bindings-improvements branch, I had to copy and paste a
> large section of code from SWIG in order to support new SWIG features
> on old SWIG versions, such as 1.3.19. If we forced users to upgrade to
> SWIG 1.3.24, this code would not be necessary.

This sounds like a reasonable requirement for the 1.3.x line.

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