Re: [Monotone-devel] recent Botan changes?

[Markus Wanner]

On 03/26/2013 11:48 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
> Thomas Moschny <address@hidden> writes:
>> Am Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:59:42 -0400
>> schrieb Stephen Leake <address@hidden>:
>>> I tried upgrading to Botan 1.10.5 (current as of today), but that
>>> fails at configure time with a Python syntax error. Red Hat 5.0 has
>>> Python 2.4.3, Botan 10.x apparently requires a later Python version.

Correct. Python 2.4 and older are not supported by botan-1.10. And even
for 2.5 you need to tweak configure.py a bit. See the comment at the
very top of that file.

> Then Botan 1.10.5 compiled easily as well, except that configure.py only
> works with 2.7.3.

Python 3.3 seems be a bit bleeding-edgy. Again, see that comment.

> I had to add -I/usr/local/include/botan/botan-1.10 and -lbotan-1.10 to
> the mtn configure line, then it compiled fine. and it works, so I'm happy.

Glad to hear that.

>>> monotone configure says we support Botan > 1.6.3, which is apparently
>>> no longer true.

I still intend to support Botan as far back as 1.6.3. And I certainly
tested with some one version from each stable Botan branch, including
1.6. On Debian exclusively, though. And in non-standard locations (as
you did for botan-1.10 on RedHat). Then again, I'd be surprised if the
OS matters much in this case.

>> We should fix this then.

Stephen now thinks it was a configuration issue on his RedHat box. So
there's nothing to fix in monotone, I think.

> Yes. But what range of Botan versions do we want to support? I'm ok with
> 1.10, but Debian stable is also an important consideration.

I don't see much reason to raise the bar. Certainly not to 1.10. We
might think about dropping support for the botan-1.6 (and -1.7) series,
but let's please do a monotone-1.1 release before that.

BTW: current Debian stable (squeeze) still has botan1.8, while wheezy
(soon-to-be-stable) brings 1.10.

Regards

Markus Wanner

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