On 2017-12-24 04:28 , Clemens Lang wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 12:39:34PM +0100, Vincent Habchi wrote: >> I’ve a made a private change to my python27 Portfile to allow it to >> use DB60 instead of the default DB48, which was installed only for its >> needs. I think allowing people (through a variant) to build a Python >> 2.7 version which relies on another version of DB would be nice. > > Is there a reason to not just always use a newer version?
Just as a data point, the _bsddb.so in the binary installer from python.org appears to be statically linked against Berkeley DB 4.7.25. And to turn the question around, what is gained by using the newer version? - Josh
