On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 03:03:48AM +0100, Thomas Wouters wrote: > On 3/7/06, "Martin v. L??wis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thomas Wouters wrote: > > > Who 'owns' Modules/_bsddb.c, if anyone? > > > > It's a fork of pybsddb, originally contributed by Gregory Smith (*). > > For all practical purposes, he also "owns" it, but hasn't objected > > to others making changes in the past. > > > > At the time it was imported, I recall the plan was to out-phase > > pybsddb, and only keep the version in Python. It appears that things > > have developed differently. > > > Alright. It seems someone <wink> already made backward-incompatible changes > to _bsddb.c (adding Py_ssize_t use), and various other things were fixed, > too, so I just went ahead and checked in a bunch of small fixes. I'm not > done yet, though. After I am done (which might be a while still, but > hopefully before alpha1), I'll fix backward compatibility and send in a > patch to the pybsddb project :)
Yeah I "own" it for whatever thats worth. The pybsddb project only continues to exist as a skeleton to provide a more up to date BerkeleyDB module for: (a) use with a new BerkeleyDB version (b) use with older versions of python The pybsddb project does not have its own copy of the code, it just pulls Modules/_bsddb.c and the Lib/bsddb/ directly from the python repository using a script. Its appreciated if people keep Modules/_bsddb.c and Lib/bsddb/ backwards compatible with the few revs of python. Otherwise I end up finding out and fixing it myself with ifdefs on the rare occasions when I attempt to make another pybsddb module release and find it doesn't work with an old version. ;) -greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
