[Python-Dev] Buildbots for trunk are all red

Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Thu Feb 28 21:19:40 CET 2008


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:00:54PM +0100, Christian Heimes wrote:
> Oh yeah ... ZODB4 and BDBStorage ... a dark chapter starting with high
> hopes and ending in tragedy ... Several projects like Zope and
> Subversion worked hard on a a Berkeley DB backend but in the end all
> projects had the same fate.
> 
> A few years ago in Geteborg/SE during lunch Jim explained me the reasons
> for the cancellation. As far as I remember the conversation he used some
> words I dare not to repeat in public. Some kids may read the Python dev
> list. :)

   Sorry, can I ask an additional question? These words - what they were
about? about the architecture of BDBStorage and Subversion, or about the
very BerkeleyDB, or about what?

Oleg.
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     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
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