[spambayes-dev] improving dumbdbm's survival chances...

[G. Armour Van Horn]

Hey, I'm nowhere near "Tim's sister" capability, but I still want to just
download the zip, extract it, and run the proxy. If dumbdbm is a dumb way to go,
it shouldn't be the default.

I wouldn't be too upset to be retraining, I've only been running this install
for a week and could just start from scratch again. I was planning on keeping up
the training for a week or so anyway, although my database is already up to 27
megs.

Van

Tim Peters wrote:

> [Tim]
> >> Note that *ever* using dumbdbm for the spambayes database remains a
> >> monumentally bad idea, though.
>
> [Tony]
> > So, to be clear,
>
> Does "a monumentally bad idea" sound fuzzy <wink>?
>
> > we still might as well print a warning for those people using it,
> > encouraging them to either use a pickle or other dbm?  Should we still
> > follow through with refusing to use it in the release after next?
>
> dumdbdm shouldn't be used at all for a spambayes wordinfo database, but I
> can't suggest details about how to get there from here (I've only ever used
> a dict).  Since this is still alpha software, fine by me if retraining from
> scratch is required for people who use dumbdbm now.  The chance that
> existing dumbdbm .dat and .dir files are out of synch with each other seems
> so high that I don't think it would even be doing people a favor to suggest
> *converting* to another format -- better to cut their losses and start over.
>
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