Revision as of 07:16, 22 September 2022

SWIG 4.1.0

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

Summary

Update the SWIG in Fedora to the latest version 4.1.0. New version should be released in October 2nd 2022. See CHANGES.current for more details about new release.

Owner

Name: Jitka Plesníková
Email: <jplesnik@redhat.com>

Current status

Targeted release: Fedora Linux 38
Last updated: 2022-09-22
devel thread
FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Copr repository with the latest version of SWIG 4.1.0
Current status of SWIG's dependencies
I checked the errors and reported them to SWIG upstream/package upstream/fedora maintainers.
Issues related to SWIG 4.1.0
- COPASI BZ - upstream fix
- graphviz - related to PHP wrapper change
- kicad BZ - upstream fix
- libCombine BZ - upstream fix
- libkolabxml - related to PHP wrapper change
- libnuml BZ - upstream fix
- libsbml BZ - patch attached
- libsedml BZ - upstream fix
- lldb BZ - patch attached
- mapserver - related to PHP wrapper change
- mlt - related to PHP wrapper change
- nordugrid-arc BZ - patch attached
- subversion BZ - upstream fix

Detailed Description

SWIG-4.1.0 summary:

Add PHP 8 support.
PHP wrapping is now done entirely via PHP's C API - no more .php wrapper.
- the change breaks build of graphviz, libkolabxml, mapserver and mlt - it requires update of code and spec file to not install *.php files
Perl 5.8.0 is now the oldest version SWIG supports.
Python 3.3 is now the oldest Python 3 version SWIG supports.
Common cases of < and > comparisons in constant expressions are now supported.
The "XML" target language has been reclassified as "Experimental".

Benefit to Fedora

Provides the latest SWIG version to developers.

Scope

Proposal owners: Check Koschei status. Test with latest version to ensure compatibility. Work with upstream on bug fixing.
Other developers: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Release engineering:
Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

Upgrade/compatibility impact

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

How To Test

The SWIG dependencies are monitored by Koschei, see the Koschei SWIG group

User Experience

Developers will have the benefit of using the latest SWIG version.

Dependencies

The list of packages which are using SWIG for build.

Contingency Plan

Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Documentation