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 =notmuch vc/ext/notmuch käynnistettävää tiedostoa ei voi ladata dynaamisesti zsh: exit 1 ldd =notmuch 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 _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list notmuch@notmuchmail.org https://notmuchmail.org/mailman/listinfo/notmuch