svn commit: r25423 - /release/qpid/proton/README_historic_cleanup.txt

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Author: robbie
Date: Mon Mar  5 11:47:10 2018
New Revision: 25423

Log:
add note around cleanup of historic proton-c releases

Added:
    release/qpid/proton/README_historic_cleanup.txt

Added: release/qpid/proton/README_historic_cleanup.txt
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+The Python bindings for proton-c are published at PyPi, and in order to
+allow a seemless install, a system was added such that if the relevant
+proton-c version couldnt be located on the system already then the setup
+would implicitly compile and install a local version for use.
+
+Unfortunately, when this functionality was added in earlier releases,
+reference was made to http://www.apache.org/dist/qpid/proton/ to download
+the matching release archive for installation.
+
+When these older releases are removed from there, it will break things for 
+projects using the bindings from PyPi (or elsewhere) in their existing
+release versions should they actually be relying on the implicit proton-c
+install functionality.
+
+This issue was addressed in proton-0.16.0 via
+https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PROTON-1330, to distribute the needed
+C files within the generated python binding source bundle. The intention is
+to clear out the older releases over time, as other projects use of them
+phases out, and hopefully avoid/minimise significant disruption to other
+projects and end users.



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