Correction: the subversion BerkeleyDB backend is still very much alive and kicking. There were some early issues (they did things that SleepyCat told them not to do :-) but it was corrected and it's still working fine for several large users.
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fred Drake wrote: > > The BDBStorage is long gone at this point. Few are so unfortunate as > > to remember it (though a few who may just might be on this list). :-) > > Oh yeah ... ZODB4 and BDBStorage ... a dark chapter starting with high > hopes and ending in tragedy ... Several projects like Zope and > Subversion worked hard on a a Berkeley DB backend but in the end all > projects had the same fate. > > A few years ago in Göteborg/SE during lunch Jim explained me the reasons > for the cancellation. As far as I remember the conversation he used some > words I dare not to repeat in public. Some kids may read the Python dev > list. :) > > Christian > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/guido%40python.org > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
