Brett> All but dbm.dumb require some pre-existing library to exist to
Brett> compile against. So any platform that has the proper libraries
Brett> installed will be able to use ndbm or gnu, but as for which
Brett> platforms that are I do not know.
Wasn't bsddb (either bsddb185 or bsddb3) built for the Windows
distributions? Without something there's no guarantee that anydbm or shelve
will work out of the box. As Raymond pointed out, dumbdbm would be a poor
choice as the default dict-on-disk module.
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