I am updating db3 and db4 at the moment, just checking that 
it'll build and install properly, please be patient, I have to 
go to work soon, but they'll be fixed later today.

db3 and db4 shlibs can live happily together. db4 is a new major 
version, so is presumably incompatible with db3.

Max actually told me about the db31 package, but I forgot to 
look at it and check for conflicts, sorry.


Peter

On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 08:39  AM, Chris Devers wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>
>>> The problem is that db3 and db31 both provide db, and fink 
>>> doesn't want
>>> to remove db31 in preference to db3, because you have a package that
>>> requires db31 explicitly, (Evolution?)
>>
>> You are right, I hadn't seen this. Other packages depend on db3
>> explicitly, so there is no easy way out right now. You have to choose
>> one or the other.
>
> Is there any particular reason that db3 and db4 can't coexist? 
> Is db4 not
> backwards compatible, or buggy, or something? Or for that 
> matter, is there
> any benefit that db4 provides over db3 that would make it 
> worthwhile, even
> if porting some software might introduce bugs? I would hope that this
> can't be a problem, if the interface remains the same -- but does it?
>
> I'll admit that I'm [obviously] not aware of the version details or how
> they might differ, I'm just used to using & working with higher level
> wrappers like DBM, and not with DB* directly. It just seems 
> annoying that
> the two versions have difficulty co-existing (or the newer one 
> can't just
> supercede the older).
>
>


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