>>> Howard Chu <[email protected]> schrieb am 19.03.2014 um 18:29 in Nachricht <[email protected]>: > Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: >> --On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:16 AM -0300 Friedrich Locke >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> Hi folks! >>> >>> I wonder if, with the increased interest on mdb, the support for bdb will >>> be removed in a near future. >>> >>> Thanks a lot. > > See the slides from LDAPCon 2013. http://lanyrd.com/2013/ldapcon/sckyhk/ > > Since Oracle has changed the license of BDB 6 to AGPLv3, most network > services > that used BDB will be required to migrate away from it. (This also affects > Cyrus SASL and Heimdal Kerberos, but we already wrote LMDB drivers for them > 3 > years ago.) And since BDB is now technologically obsolete anyway, there's no > reason to continue to support it.
Hi! Why is BDB technologically obsolete? Can you elabporate? Regards, Ulrich > >> Hi Friedrich, >> >> bdb and hdb will still exist, but be disabled by default in configure, with >> OpenLDAP 2.5. Removal would be slated for OpenLDAP 2.6. > > > -- > -- Howard Chu > CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com > Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ > Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
