On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 11:23, Frederic Crozat wrote: > Le mar 18/11/2003 � 22:33, JP Rosevear a �crit : > > In order to make evolution and evolution-data-server easier to build, we > > are trying to cut out the external db3 dependency on a specific > > version. So, I'm planning to import db3 into the tree. However, Dan > > pointed out that we might want to import the latest db4 so that distros > > and platforms (for instance netbsd, fink do right now, suse did at one > > point) that didn't do this are covered. > > Hmm, as a distro packager, I really don't like seeing whole bunch of > external code being integrated that way in modules. > > Why ? > Because it makes packages (and fixes) much more harder to fix in case > something needs to be fix in the external code. > > The best example is zlib which was copied in a LOT of places (3 times in > kernel, dozen of time in various apps) and when the first security bug > was raised in zlib, it tooks about 6 months to get the situation cleaned > correctly. Moreover, since it was statically link with those programs, > doing the security fix was really a pain. > > Dynamic linking is really a great think when maintaining distro (or for > ports to new arch, etc..). So I would really prefer you don't come with > your own copy of db4 :( > > Of course, if db4 file format is known to not change during the entire > 4.x branch, it is not really a problem :)
is that true? Is the format in all 4.x versions going to be the same? cheers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
