June 20, 2002
3:42 a.m.
"Gregory P. Smith" <greg@electricrain.com> writes:
Modern berkeleydb uses much different on disk database formats, glancing at the docs on sleepycat.com i don't even think it can read bsddb (1.85) files. Existing code using bsddb (1.85) should not automatically start using a different database library even if we provide a compatibility interface.
The Python bsddb module never guaranteed that you can use it to read bsddb 1.85 data files. In fact, on many installation, the bsddb module links with bsddb 2.x or bsddb 3.x, using db_185.h. So this is no reason not to call the module bsddb. Regards, Martin