On Sun, Aug 23, 2026 at 7:46 PM Daniel Sahlberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Reviewing this nomination: Do we really want to merge r1936959 - removing > all documentation about BDB? Of course it is deprecated but it is still > part of the 1.15.x release. > > I can live with removing it but I'd just want to make sure we have > consensus on this change. > Note that BDB is still mentioned in the document, just without the build instructions. To support the decision to remove the BDB-related guidance from INSTALL: The removed text contained version recommendations that accumulated over more than two decades and that contradict what the configure script actually accepts or requires: it seems that now SVN accepts BDB 4.x, 5.x (and 6.x through a special `--enable-bdb6` option), but the removed text suggested version 4.x and 4.4.20 specifically as the current and recommended version (that release is from 2005). So that's misleading, and leaving the text unchanged is IMHO worse than removing it. Since the BDB backend is deprecated and expected to be eventually removed, and the CMake build system doesn't support it at all, I decided to cut the BDB guidance entirely, leaving only a brief entry in the Dependency Overview section. Anyone already building SVN with BDB is unaffected: the build itself hasn't changed, and relevant options remain documented in `configure --help`. That audience is unlikely to be relying on the removed BDB-related guidance in the INSTALL document for this anyway. PS I'm going to resume work on the INSTALL guide at the end of the week I think. Cheers, > Daniel > > > > Den sön 23 aug. 2026 kl 18:20 skrev <[email protected]>: > >> Author: hartmannathan >> Date: Sun Aug 23 16:20:06 2026 >> New Revision: 1937356 >> >> Log: >> * branches/1.15.x/STATUS: Nominate all pending INSTALL fixes (r1936884 >> group) >> >> Modified: >> subversion/branches/1.15.x/STATUS >> >> Modified: subversion/branches/1.15.x/STATUS >> >> ============================================================================== >> --- subversion/branches/1.15.x/STATUS Sun Aug 23 12:17:55 2026 >> (r1937355) >> +++ subversion/branches/1.15.x/STATUS Sun Aug 23 16:20:06 2026 >> (r1937356) >> @@ -76,6 +76,13 @@ Other candidate changes: >> Votes: >> +1: dsahlberg >> >> +* r1936884, r1936949, r1936953, r1936955, r1936956, r1936958, r1936959, >> r1936961, r1936962, r1936963, r1936965 >> + INSTALL: Corrections and cleanups >> + Justification: >> + Documentation correctness >> + Votes: >> + +1: hartmannathan >> + >> Veto-blocked changes: >> ===================== >> >> >> -- With best regards, Pavel Lyalyakin
