It never fails (bsddb retirement in 2.3)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri May 2 09:36:35 EDT 2003


Nick Vargish wrote:

> What Sleepycat installation? OSF1/Dec Unix does not come with some
> Sleepycat installation. 

So what *does* it come with? (what specific headers/libraries,
specific versions of these headers, libraries if you can find out)

 > Those who want to use non-standard bsddb implementations can tweak
 > Modules/Setup or use bsddb3 for their import statement.

On many systems, Sleepycat BSDDB *is* a standard package.

Notice that the original BSDDB 1.85 is broken in a way that it can
lose or corrupt data, so you shouldn't trust it any data of value.

Regards,
Martin





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