How old a version of xapian should notmuch support?

[Tomi Ollila]

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.
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