Re: [PATCH] configure: drop check for default xapian backend

Subject: Re: [PATCH] configure: drop check for default xapian backend

Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 08:17:49 -0300

To: Đoàn Trần Công Danh, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com> writes:

> Starting from xapian 1.3.5, xapian switched default backend to glass.
>
> From 00cdfe10 (build: drop support for xapian versions less than 1.4,
> 2020-04-22), we only support xapian 1.4.0+. Effectively, we don't need
> to check for default xapian backend anymore.
>
> Let's drop it.

This is not wrong, but I wonder if we will need to put it all back in a
slightly modified form when Xapian 1.6 releases with a new default
backend.  I guess we can start by reverting this patch if that happens?

d
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