On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Jesus Cea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Guido van Rossum wrote: >> I am still in favor of removing bsddb from Python 3.0. > > BDFL has talked. > > I want to record this: > > * I will keep maintaining bsddb in Python 2.6. No idea what is the plan > for 2.7, nevertheless. >
Great! As everyone has said, this is nothing personal and I am glad you are not taking it that way. As for 2.7, it's a wait and see. My guess is that we will have one where we have backported some more stuff from 3.0/3.1 to 2.7 to keep the transition easy. > * I will keep bsddb updated and available via PYPI, both for 2.x and 3.x > branches. Source only. Windows users will be at the mercy of other > compiling the module and making it available. > > * I will be available if the decision to drop bsddb from standard lib is > reconsidered. > > * I will try to find another Python area of interest to me, to fully > honor my commit privileges. > As I mentioned in another email, I think it would be a great idea to change the dbm package so that bsddb can easily be hooked into the dbm package as a 3rd-party DB back-end (along with any other DB backend that wants to). If you want to work on that for 2.7/3.1 it would be greatly appreciated! -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
