On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 16:33, JP Rosevear wrote: > 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.
There are definitely good points to this, since it basically means that I can stop doing it myself ;-) Berkeley DB is largely intended as an embedded database and so their concern for keeping the on-disk database format the same is less than other software. The other suggestion of dynamically linking to the system db4 is going to be problematic because I might have db 4.2 on a machine running one OS release and db 4.3 on a different machine and use a shared homedir. At that point, I can only use the addressbook on one machine. Of course, the *real* win would be moving away from Berkeley DB completely ;-) My $0.02, Jeremy _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
