Re: Need swig 1.3.40 for Subversion

["Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 14:04 -0700, David Rothenberger wrote:
> It seems that swig-1.3.38 has a bug that produces invalid Python
> bindings with Python 2.6. I first hit this when building
> subversion-1.6.11-2 for Python 2.6, but I dismissed the test case
> failures at the time.
> 
> Today I built subversion-1.6.12-1 and took the time to investigate. The
> Python bindings won't run when generated with swig 1.3.38 but run fine
> when generated with 1.3.40.
> 
> Therefore, I respectively request that the swig maintainer update swig
> to 1.3.40. (I believe swig 2.0.0 was just release, but I have no idea if
> Subversion will build with that version.)

Thanks for the heads-up; I'll update to 1.3.40 shortly; given the nature
of swig, it's probably a bit early to ship 2.0.0.


Yaakov



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