Sept. 4, 2008
5:03 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> wrote:
The release candidate seems to be the wrong time to yank this out (in part because of the surprise factor) and in part because I think the change silently affects shelve performance so that the impact may be significantly negative but not readily apparent.
I do not use bsddb directly, but I use shelve which on Linux usually takes advantage of bsddb. Does removing bsddb mean that I will not be able to read shelve files written with Python 2.5 with Python 3.0? That would be quite disturbing to me.