[Jason Ahrens]
>> The only problem program at this point is Spambayes. The database
>> is not compatible between 32bit and 64bit systems.
>>
>> I don't suppose anyone has found a way to use spambayes between 32
>> and 64 bit systems?
[Tony Meyer]
> What database are you using? I'm 95% sure that pickle would work.
Yes, pickles are 100% platform-independent.
> I'm 90% sure that ZODB (if you're using SpamBayes 1.1a1) would work.
That too: ZODB uses Python pickles to store object state, and
inherits platform-independence from that. ZODB's FileStorage format
is also platform-independent. If we're using "I" flavors of ZODB
BTrees, a bug in those makes it possible to lose information silently
on a 64-bits box when storing integers that don't actually fit in 32
bits:
http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/1592
I strongly doubt SpamBayes tickles that bug, though.
> I'm 90% sure that one of the SQL backends would work.
That one I don't know about.
> I'm 90% sure that you're using bsddb and it doesn't work.
Yup, the bsddb database format is notoriously platform-dependent; not
even necessarily transportable across two 32-bit boxes.
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