[lxml-dev] Build on AIX5, Python 2.3 support

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi,

> Managed to build lxml 1.1.2 on AIX5.2, however I had to make a minor
> patch to "setup.py"

sorry for the late reply and thanks for the patch. It won't make it into the
distribution, but it's good to have a solution to such a problem in the
mailing list archive.

Regarding the DocFileSuite, it's a test-suite-only problem that should be
solved in current SVN. We added a local copy of a later doctest.py version to
make this work (src/local_doctest.py). Python 2.3 is still supported and we
will continue to support it as long as it makes sense. I've seen a Solaris
system lately that came with Python 2.2 installed (which we can't possibly
support), but 2.3 support is definitely in scope for us.

Regards,
Stefan