[spambayes-dev] 1.0.2 and 1.1a1

[Tony Meyer]

> Hope you don't mind (I don't know if you already knew if or applies)
> but are you aware that the Subversion core dev team currently advise
> against the use of bsddb 4.1 versions?  They recomend either 
> 4.0 or 4.2.
> http://www.subversion.org/faq.html#bdb41-tabletype-bug

I didn't know this.  I don't know enough about bsddb or how Python/SpamBayes
uses it to know whether any problems it has effects or not, either, though.

> In Python 2.3.4 (that's what I've got installed):
> 
>   >>> import bsddb
>   >>> bsddb._db.version()
>   (4, 1, 25)
>   >>> bsddb._db.DB_VERSION_STRING
>   'Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.1.25: (December 19, 2002)'
>   >>> 

Python 2.4 has 4.2:

Python 2.4 (#60, Nov 30 2004, 11:49:19) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import bsddb
>>> bsddb._db.version()
(4, 2, 52)
>>> bsddb._db.DB_VERSION_STRING
'Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (December  3, 2003)'

So if the builds stay with 2.4*, we'll also get the improved bsddb, which
might help.

* I'll leave 1.0.3 with 2.4 - if people want 2.3, then there's 1.0.1 or the
source.  I'd like 1.1a1 to use 2.4, but also want to include the Zope stuff
necessary for ZODBStorage, and there isn't a 2.4 binary for that yet AFAIK.
Not sure what I'll do about that yet (but I ought to hurry up and figure it
out).

=Tony.Meyer