Hi David, On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 12:01:57PM -0800, David Kimdon wrote: > I submitted the patch to the alioth subversion repository, thanks for > posting to the dev list. You can feel free to upload the 1.3.24 swig.
I already uploaded...
> From what I understand the new swig will break the current subversion
> so I'll upload a new subversion soon after (or before?).
Yes, that is the fact. And that is one of the reasons I'd like to have
the new swig in Debian as the old libswig* were really only for one
version of swig and won't work with the next release. So the solution
would have been swig packages named swig1.3.23, swig1.3.24 and the
corresponding library packages, a real maintenance night mare if you ask
me.
The new swig1.3.24 will kick the libswig packages out of the archive and
therefore will break anything linking against it, currently the svn
stuff and python-hid, pythin-phidgets.
> Perhaps I put a build-dep that requires the 1.3.24 swig since in the
> past we have found that the swig API is rather volatile and it might
> simplify our lives to see everything using the same versions.
Make that swig >= 1.3.24. Newer swig versions should be fine as long as
you don't mix with older runtimes.
Thanks!
Torsten
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