The other historical problem with BDB is that they have on numerous occasions changed the on-disk format, so just relinking an application with a newer lib can easily break applications. That's far worse than the API instability.
Gordon On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Richard Lowe <[email protected]> wrote: > This is because Berkeley DB used to be famously bad at back/forward > compatible of ABI or API. (it at least used to be the canonical > example of sucking at it). > > It doesn't seem wise to ship just one 'bdb' unless someone can say for > certain that they got better, otherwise it's just asking for trouble > (or at least forced rebuilds of every piece of software linking to > it). > > -- Rich > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
