On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, David Walser wrote:

> Buchan Milne wrote:
> > And who decided to use gdbm for everything in 9.1??
> 

> I dunno, but I see that as a whole lot better than using Sleepycat.  

Except in features, speed, scalability, and satisfying requirements for 
openldap-2.1 ...

> AFAIK, gdbm hasn't broken compatibility with itself.  That as opposed to 
> using Sleepycat that breaks every couple months when they decide to come 
> out with a new revision and not keep it compatible.  What's good about 
> that?  I'm tired of this db2, db3, db4, db4.1, db4.1099999 1/2 etc.  

I don't honestly think it was a conscious decision, since there were no 
buildconflicts added to the spec file, the change was not noted anywhere 
in the changelog, and 2 different databases people use for authentication 
broke on an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1, without a warning. One was fixed by 
an update, the other one is still there, and still needs to be dealt with.

Regards,
Buchan

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