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

[Meyer, Tony]

[Tim]
> 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.
[Skip]
> Then the attached patch shouldn't be brutal for 1.0a5 (just 
> wipe dumbdbm from the choices altogether).  Obviously, we'd 
> put something in the release notes and pre-seed the FAQ and 
> windows.html pages with strong hints about the change.

I've add info to the FAQ about this.  What about we just apply the
change to cvs now?  Those using dumbdbm should change anyway, so they're
not really losing out.

Options.py would also need to be changed to remove "dumbdbm" as a valid
choice.

=Tony Meyer