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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] database: Add notmuch_database_compact_close\r
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+On Thu, Oct 10 2013, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:\r
+\r
+>\r
+> another, small change:\r
+>\r
+> case "${xapian_version}" in\r
+> - 0.*|1.[01].*|1.2.[0-5])\r
+> + 0.*|1.[01].*|1.2.[0-5]|1.2.[0-5][^0-9]*)\r
+> printf "No (only available with Xapian > 1.2.6).\n" ;;\r
+\r
+Forget the above suggestion, as mentioned below this would not work in\r
+dash. I presume attempting to compile compaction support will fail in \r
+case such support is not there. If we ever encounter such a bug report\r
+let's revisit this then...\r
+\r
+> someone might do version like 1.2.4-abc but probably not 1.2.04 (nor 1.2a.4)\r
+>\r
+> (side note: case $x in [^...]) works with bash (and ksh&zsh, but not with dash)\r
+\r
+Tomi\r