[Python-Dev] Incorporating bsddb3

[Martin v. Loewis]

barry@python.org (Barry A. Warsaw) writes:

> I'm not sure we'd want to distribute either the source or binary
> though.  They're fairly large.  If we did, I'd recommend BerkeleyDB
> 4.0.14, not the latest version, because bsddb3 doesn't yet build on
> 4.1.24 because of some incompatible API changes, IIUC.

libdb33.dll is 470k, which might be acceptable. I agree that
distributing the source is pointless.

> Martin, what do you plan to do about the pybsddb test suite?  

I would ignore it, or put it in non-dist (in case this indicates the
end of the pybsddb project).

> Maybe we include none of that, but simply "import" the code into
> Python and re-sync whenever it's appropriate.

That is my proposal. Initially, there would be no user-visible change,
as it would operate in compatible mode. We could then incorporate more
documentation as we go along.

Regards,
Martin