Subject: Re: Need swig 1.3.40 for Subversion
From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:35:10 -0500
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On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 13:15 -0700, David Rothenberger wrote:
> Can they both be installed in parallel, maybe using alternatives to
> switch between them? I ask because the subversion configure says this:
> 
> WARNING: Subversion requires 1.3.24 or later, and is known to work
> WARNING: with versions up to 1.3.36

The SWIG datadir is already versioned, so if you would version the EXEs
then you could *theoretically* have more than one version at a time.  In
practice, though, I doubt it would work, as many packages just call
"swig" without leaving an easy way to override the executable name.

> I'm not optimistic that they'll move to swig 2 anytime soon. :)

I'm not sure that 2.0.0 is as much of a jump from 1.3.40 as the version
numbers would lead one to believe.  For instance, Gentoo[1] hasn't
hard-masked or SLOTted 2.0.0, one or both of which they would have done
if it was really that much different from 1.3.40.


Yaakov

[1] http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-lang/swig


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