Ross, IIRC, it was done because, every libdb update broke Evolution or libdb wasn't so stable release over release. Also OpenSUSE uses statically linked libdb. But most of the hackers I know, dynamically link libdb. I'm favor of the change. But lemme ping some old evolution hackers who were part of this change, to understand what they feel about it.
-Srini On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 14:42 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > I think that we should remove the fork of Berkeley DB from the Evolution > Data Server source. Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo and Fedora all use > --with-libdb to dynamically link to a system library, so it is known to > work. > > This would involve removing libdb from svn, and always dynamically > linking to libdb instead. --with-libdb would still exist for people who > want to use a custom libdb, but it would default to /usr. > > Thoughts? > > Ross > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-hackers mailing list > Evolution-hackers@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
