On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Gregory P. Smith greg@krypto.org wrote:
On 2/26/08, Brett Cannon brett@python.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Facundo Batista facundobatista@gmail.com wrote:
2008/2/26, "Martin v. Löwis" martin@v.loewis.de:
They check out bsddb from subversion, see Tools/buildbot/external. If you don't trust that they did so correctly, edit the script to remove bsddb, check that in, wait for them to delete it, then revert the script, check in again, and see how they build it.
No, I wasn't aware of this mechanisms at all. I don't even know how to build Python in a Windows...
Anyway, I don't think it's a bad checkout or something, as the same error happens in two different machines.
I don't know, :(
Or we can get rid of bsddb and not have the problem anymore. =)
-Brett
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Using that logic I prefer just getting rid of Windows to stop having these problems. That'd solve the ssl applink issue and msi installer building issue as well. =P
=) Well, we can't have all our dreams come true.
My opinion on bsddb as a standard library module is based mostly on "its always been there" and a vague memory of the last time this came up I thought people piped up saying they liked batteries being included, including bsddb and sqlite, but I don't have a handy reference to that email thread.
Well, in my opinion "batteries included" is great, but not when one of the batteries consistently acts up and requires a good shake to get working again. The bsddb module has consistent reliability issues when it comes to testing (and I suspect it has more to do with Sleepycat than the bindings). I know I am tired of getting buildbot errors saying that the bsddb tests died more consistently than most tests over their history. And I did some work on porting bsddb over to Python 3.0 and it was painful.
Anyway, I am not pushing for this now. Any major removal plans will go through the stdlib-sig first and require justification before I even attempt to seriously suggest something beyond a joking line in an email (in other words, no one needs to worry about anything right now).
-Brett