Backward compability older Python versions

Michael Ströder michael at stroeder.com
Fri Mar 4 13:06:49 CET 2005


Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> 
>> Hmm, regarding Linux distributions also the versions of the OpenLDAP 
>> libs come to mind. I'd like drop support for older OpenLDAP libs too 
>> to get rid of all the #ifdef's spreaded around in the C source.
> 
> Where would you place the "cut-off"? Keep in mind that RH still ships 
> that antiquated 2.0.27 with RH9/RHEL3...

Personally I think we would do Red Hat users a favor with forcing them 
to install 2.2 libs. Note that the OpenLDAP project itself dropped 
support for 2.0.x and 2.1.x.

>  If you mean dropping support 
> for OL 1.x, by all means, just do it :)

This already happened long ago...

Ciao, Michael.



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