It never fails (bsddb retirement in 2.3)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri May 2 20:13:55 EDT 2003


Skip Montanaro wrote:

> Actually, I think most of the necessary logic will live in setup.py.  Search
> for "bsddb".  That stanza will have to be modified to build the older module
> if a recent enough version of Berkeley DB isn't found.  Note that if the
> bsddb module is built instead of the _bsddb module the Lib/bsddb package
> directory shouldn't be installed.

That is incorrect. If bsddb185 is build, it is called bsddb185. It is a 
module entirely different from the bsddb package, or the _bsddb module.

Regards,
Martin





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