[spambayes-dev] Dumbdbm (Was RE: [Spambayes] Bug report, feedback)

[Meyer, Tony]

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> The other thing it tells me is that you should install either 
> Python 2.3 (which is still in beta, so perhaps you don't want
> to do that) or install
> pybsddb - you can get a binary installer from pybsddb.sf.net.  Because
> you're using Python 2.2 with no pybsddb, you're using 'dumbdbm' as the
> storage mechanism, which is not very robust.

What do people think of the idea of adding a warning to users of dumbdbm
that they should follow Richie's steps above, followed by dropping
dumbdbm support in either the next release or the one after?

As Skip (?) noted a little while back, the frequency of corrupt db
traces that have dumbdbm is quite high.

=Tony Meyer