[lxml-dev] lxml 1.1 problems with python 2.3

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

Holger Joukl wrote:
>>> I don't think we actually ever explictly dropped support for Python
> 2.3.
>>> Perhaps we should for a particular version of lxml
>> Hmm, it would definitely be easiest to do that for lxml 1.1. ;)
> 
> Just my -1 for dropping python2.3 support.

;) I just said it would be the *easiest* solution. I agree that it's worth
keeping 2.3 compatibility as long as we can. There were no major changes in
the C-API since that version that would prevent us from doing so.


>> One way to work around this kind of problem would be to not release the
>> thread
>> context under 2.3. That should be simple to do, if we know the right
>> places where we have to do this.
> 
> Better imho, so 2.3 users can still depend on lxml.

I'll try to come up with a fix then. Maybe it's enough to somehow disable the
thread context calls to make lxml run single-threaded under 2.3. I'll have to
rely on someone else to test it, though.


Stefan