[mail@beyermatthias.de: notmuch INSTALL file outdated?]

[mail@beyermatthias.de: notmuch INSTALL file outdated?]

[Matthias Beyer]

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Hi ML,

as requested by David this is a forward of my initial question.
See below.

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Message-ID: <20210207115020.3ze6au4mglcsnypz@hoshi>
From: Matthias Beyer <mail@beyermatthias.de>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 12:50:22 +0100
Subject: notmuch INSTALL file outdated?

Hi David,
Hi Carl,

I write to you because you're the main contributors to the INSTALL file in the
notmuch repository (according to git-shortlog -sne).

From what I see, the INSTALL file tells me

    Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or
    Xapian 1.1.4 (or later).

but if I compile notmuch, it requires xapian >= 1.4.0, from the configure
output:

    Reading libnotmuch version from source... OK.
    Checking for Xapian development files (>= 1.4.0)... No.
    Checking for GMime development files (>= 3.0.3)... No.
    Checking for Glib development files (>= 2.22)... No.

so I question whether the INSTALL file is up to date.

Please double-check :-)

Have a nice Sunday,
best,
Matthias

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[PATCH] doc: drop note about early versions of Xapian

[David Bremner]

Mathias Beyer [1] points out that this note is redudant since Xapian
no longer builds with the problematic versions of Xapian.

[1]: id:20210207124404.yldgtzjrsagacrl4@hoshi
---
 INSTALL | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 40ea377a..7479a4b6 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -32,13 +32,6 @@ Talloc, and zlib which are each described below:
 
 	Xapian is available from https://xapian.org
 
-	Note: Notmuch will work best with Xapian 1.0.18 (or later) or
-	Xapian 1.1.4 (or later). Previous versions of Xapian (whether
-	1.0 or 1.1) had a performance bug that made notmuch very slow
-	when modifying tags. This would cause distracting pauses when
-	reading mail while notmuch would wait for Xapian when removing
-	the "inbox" and "unread" tags from messages in a thread.
-
 	GMime
 	-----
 	GMime provides decoding of MIME email messages for Notmuch.
-- 
2.30.2

Re: [PATCH] doc: drop note about early versions of Xapian

[David Bremner]

David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Mathias Beyer [1] points out that this note is redudant since Xapian
> no longer builds with the problematic versions of Xapian.

Applied to master.

d