June 19, 2002
3:27 p.m.
>> Why can't it just be called bsddb? Greg> Modern berkeleydb uses much different on disk database formats, Greg> glancing at the docs on sleepycat.com i don't even think it can Greg> read bsddb (1.85) files. That's never stopped us before. ;-) The current bsddb module works with versions 1, 2, 3, and 4 of Berkeley DB using the 1.85-compatible API that Sleepycat provides. It's always been the user's responsibility to run the appropriate db_dump or db_dump185 commands before using the next version of Berkeley DB. Using the library from Python never removed that requirement. Skip