From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FF106DE10A5 for ; Sun, 13 May 2018 11:26:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.474 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.474 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.178, SPF_NEUTRAL=0.652] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id p4Qsc4sVn8y3 for ; Sun, 13 May 2018 11:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (guru.guru-group.fi [46.183.73.34]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9D96DE0FF7 for ; Sun, 13 May 2018 11:26:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by guru.guru-group.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A78100090; Sun, 13 May 2018 21:26:22 +0300 (EEST) From: Tomi Ollila To: David Bremner , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: How old a version of xapian should notmuch support? In-Reply-To: <87vabr5ukm.fsf@tethera.net> References: <87vabr5ukm.fsf@tethera.net> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.26.1+22~g888240d (https://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/25.2.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: HhBM'cA~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 18:26:31 -0000 On Sun, May 13 2018, David Bremner wrote: > I'm looking at changes to get notmuch running with xapian-1.5 > (developement version). One thing that has changed is the compact API we > are using (deprecated since 1.3.4, Jan 2016) has been dropped > [1]. Updating to the new version is easy enough, but maintaining support > for two versions is a bit boring. > > One option is to bump the version of xapian required to run the next > release of notmuch. We could bump to 1.3.4, but since it's a development > version, for many users (e.g. on Debian) that means 1.4.0, which is > roughly two years old now. > > From a Debian-centric point of view, now is about the right time to drop > support for the 1.2.x series of xapian; it's most recently available in > Debian Wheezy, for which the Debian long term support initiative will > end support at the end of this month (May 2018). > > On the other hand, not everyone uses Debian. Travis is one place that > would require some work to get working (they're still using the _last_ > LTS version of Ubuntu). > > We can of course continue to support 1.2.x. It will increase the level > of ifdefication, especially if/when we try to support xapian-1.5+. > > So how many people are actually using libxapian22? [2] > > > [1] I expect a few other changes will be needed to get notmuch working > properly with xapian 1.5; currently 11 tests fail. > > [2] You can test via "ldd $(which notmuch) | grep xapian". If that says cli(1)$ ldd =3Dnotmuch vc/ext/notmuch k=C3=A4ynnistett=C3=A4v=C3=A4=C3=A4 tiedostoa ei voi ladata dynaamisesti zsh: exit 1 ldd =3Dnotmuch cli(1)$ that said, I know I'm using 1.2.24, but I think I have no difficulty to update to 1.4 series, I've just been lazy to do so. Tomi > libxapian.so.30, you are using current xapian, and can ignore this > discussion. > _______________________________________________ > notmuch mailing list > notmuch@notmuchmail.org > https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch