[Python-Dev] BSDDB3

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Wed Apr 23 19:52:20 CEST 2008


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:12 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > I'm a bit nervous about syncing, because I have the feeling that
>  > python-dev is committing changes to python private branch of pybsddb. I
>  > would rather prefer patches send to me and integrate "canonical" pybsddb
>  > releases in Python frequently.
>
>  My understanding was that the pybsddb copy in Python *is* the official
>  code base. I think it's unfortunate that the pybsddb project was
>  revived, even though it was already dead.
>
>  Perhaps we should remove bsddb from Python again, and refer people to
>  pybsddb instead?
>

+1 from me! The amount of issues the bsddb module has caused over the
years suggests to me it would do better as an external project again.

-Brett


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