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 5FF5C6DE28B0 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:15:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.168 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.168 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.062, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=-0.01, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=-0.01, SPF_PASS=-0.001] 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 33HRkl-yggld for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-wm0-f47.google.com (mail-wm0-f47.google.com [74.125.82.47]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55BA36DE2851 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:15:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f47.google.com with SMTP id p9so7471386wmc.3 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:15:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :mime-version; bh=1dWQ65O6PpVkg0PCJs2OqB8FBgdznEmIMZ4PKTzsDAE=; b=bMl6gHNrI2FOU4kT6NNnc1qbUNHDOySzWr9TMpieJOHmKWMkpiHqUEnBvT9BcBxkDM xLAHWwzgttRjXZG83GFx8tPpgD5Phs8morPuQlL9lAAUTGbcuQod1D8RXlQ6+0IMF3L2 0DtnHjEjWbGLmi7oIH06nexg9QDoRnwVrwFgi3z/jq0Xl4/z/sEnT/MNZTR2EyHmKb92 zBWWcpWpKPS9ysjua1SJZCKszMS5rUa0Iu3stBH21XlT2XLsqAY+yYgKntB2F4/8wuAx Vy8hNzALNT0MXLgfY+0K+7CvpKffTXRf2MAAcMwToJE3e+tv6t6FiRWHS7E96PTu5sia 4+mg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:mime-version; bh=1dWQ65O6PpVkg0PCJs2OqB8FBgdznEmIMZ4PKTzsDAE=; b=gdBrAXImwSGa476x6OQYe1R+V6u7j6Adf7IXpsn5dCmmeuafzl39bETzwm0WF1itvK aDG/hKqVwhZllvLIEKbbTSyicA3zlfSMAlvlcWX+lUGP8RBj5AYNLpxy+VRPyQJN/3kz JA5jZaF1iCRsZYVrP6CHzL0NnJ6XLs4jsibABf90WsW19v727VEJAsEwLsfNHg89d94Z XWcJ09DD58qGpSuWwaqSgn5S3rRo9eWvdTz9QY/CboJF6ppKArkxQpOfeREoPmroQfEh zQhhA97UD/Ltyd3spgxRD94MCP84GqbXFRWwrxuKJuQvutdJGc8d8HghDrvvi9KPVq8q WO6A== X-Gm-Message-State: AElRT7FWaeGtlqMvGWgjsUo9GnlB25A8NmwQwTVR7PKecdQDVCjCVq/U eGuBw337wklJEy+y3Ujoa1U= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx4//A+Ut2uTPV59sKYrNUl6LUxsHJcoMtcpQ8Ed/Nv99by/jSu1ii+jiEc8Zj7VqEt12Jj/Rrw== X-Received: by 10.80.242.138 with SMTP id f10mr4903535edm.98.1522275337041; Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:15:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from devork.be ([2a02:168:581b::b89]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id g17sm2932108edh.55.2018.03.28.15.15.35 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:15:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Floris Bruynooghe Received: (nullmailer pid 202795 invoked by uid 469025); Wed, 28 Mar 2018 22:15:35 -0000 From: Floris Bruynooghe To: David Bremner , Brian May , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: New Python bindings (was: Crash with Python bindings) In-Reply-To: <87k1twco4w.fsf@tesseract.cs.unb.ca> References: <5694CA65.8010400@fastmail.net> <20160112102329.4269.20741@thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de> <20160112185107.GA21580@odin.tremily.us> <87k1ucp6xb.fsf@tethera.net> <87po3x4tuc.fsf@thinkbox.jade-hamburg.de> <87bmf8fyy8.fsf@silverfish.pri> <87k1twco4w.fsf@tesseract.cs.unb.ca> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:15:35 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 22:15:39 -0000 On Wed, Mar 28 2018, David Bremner wrote: > Brian May writes: > >> I can into this thread late. However, my priorities for python bindings >> would be: > > [...] >> * Packages should be available from pypi.python.org >> > > We tried this before, and it didn't work out very well. Bindings tend to > depend on a strict matching of versions with the underlying library, so > distributing them seperately doesn't really make sense to me. You need > the underlying libraries, so why not get the matching bindings from the > same place? We found that the situation was exacerbated by the fact > that no-one cared about updating the bindings on pypi. I did build a #if LIBNOTMUCH_MAJOR_VERSION < 5 #error libnotmuch version not supported by notdb #endif into my current bindings which kind of allows you to do this to some, hopefully reasonable, level.