Re: [Evolution-hackers] Removing libdb from EDS source

2008-06-13 Thread Jeffrey Stedfast
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 17:55 +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:58 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > > Ross, > > > > I had a chat with JP and He pointed me to a old README. > > > > === > > The issue was around no backwards compatability, from the old README: > > In my experien

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Removing libdb from EDS source

2008-06-13 Thread Ross Burton
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 10:58 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > Ross, > > I had a chat with JP and He pointed me to a old README. > > === > The issue was around no backwards compatability, from the old README: In my experience recently Berkeley DB has been a lot more forgiving recently. Note tha

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Removing libdb from EDS source

2008-05-04 Thread Srinivasa Ragavan
Ross, I had a chat with JP and He pointed me to a old README. === The issue was around no backwards compatability, from the old README: - Berkeley's libdb - 3.1.17 db3 is available from http://www.sleepycat.com. Make sure to get 3.1.17, it isn't the latest version. --- IMPORTANT W

Re: [Evolution-hackers] Removing libdb from EDS source

2008-04-24 Thread Srinivasa Ragavan
Ross, IIRC, it was done because, every libdb update broke Evolution or libdb wasn't so stable release over release. Also OpenSUSE uses statically linked libdb. But most of the hackers I know, dynamically link libdb. I'm favor of the change. But lemme ping some old evolution hackers who were part o

[Evolution-hackers] Removing libdb from EDS source

2008-04-24 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, I think that we should remove the fork of Berkeley DB from the Evolution Data Server source. Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo and Fedora all use --with-libdb to dynamically link to a system library, so it is known to work. This would involve removing libdb from svn, and always dynamically linking to l