It never fails (bsddb retirement in 2.3)

[Martin v. Löwis]

Andrew MacIntyre <andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au> writes:

> If we can come up with smarts in anydbm that correctly detects the format
> of the DB file, so that bsddb185 (or maybe the dbm module?) can be used
> for these, that would allow deflection of some of the steam.

To do that, whichdb would need to recognize bsddb 1.85. Then, we could
either provide a module dbhash185.py, or have dbhash.py use either
bsddb or bsddb185.

Patches in that direction are welcome. They should be based on the
principle that bsddb185 should only be used to open existing files,
and not (normally) to create new files, except when explicitly
requested by the application.

Regards,
Martin