On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 7:33 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >From issue3769:
>
> Skip> Remind me why we want to get rid of bsddb?
>
> Benjamin> The reasons are enumerated in PEP 3108.
>
> Not much justification and no references to outside discussion for such a
> heavily used package which has been part of Python for a long time in one
> form or another.
>
> I find it amusing that bsddb3 is a key justification for the removal of
> bsddb185 and then later on bsddb3 is deemed too much of a maintenance burden
> itself to retain.
>
> Does dumbdbm (aka dbm.dumb) work any better than it used to? I'd hate to
> think that's going to be the default cross-platform dictionary-on-disk
> package for Python. Can he pep at least be edited to reflect which of the
> various dbm.{bsd,ndbm,dumb,gnu} modules will be supported on what platforms
> by default?
>
All but dbm.dumb require some pre-existing library to exist to compile
against. So any platform that has the proper libraries installed will
be able to use ndbm or gnu, but as for which platforms that are I do
not know.
-Brett
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