[Python-Dev] [issue3769] Deprecate bsddb for removal in 3.0

[Gregory P. Smith]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> Another thing to keep in mind with the whole shelve/dbm.any argument
> is that for 3.1 there is nothing saying we can't change shelve and the
> dbm package to allow 3rd-party code to register with the dbm package
> such that bsddb can be used as needed behind the scenes.
>
> -Brett

Exactly.  That is what I think should really happen here.