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

[Chris Allen]

Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> 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.

No worries, that's what I was thinking as I saw that the stuff under SVN 
has changed in this area.

> 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.

Cool, but because of the threading issues I ended up using 2.4 anyway 
(although looks like that might be fixed now too).

Regards,
Chris