[Spambayes] don't update if you don't want to retrain

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Sun Dec 1 23:18:15 2002


    Paul> 1. Email is pure python, bsddb is not only in C, but also needs a 3rd
    Paul>    party library (Sleepycat DB). No problem on Windows (Python 2.3
    Paul>    will come with it built in, and there's a trivial-to-install binary
    Paul>    build for 2.2 users), but might it cause problems on Unix systems?

Unlikely.  Most Unixes have had recent versions of Sleepycat's library
available for a long time.  Versions 3 or 4(.0) are required for pybsddb.
Failing that, Version 2 doesn't suffer with the bugs that Version 1 does.
The old bsddb will still be available, just not built by default.

    Paul> 2. On Unix, as I understand it, it's possible to use the new Sleepycat
    Paul>    DB with the old Python module. So Unix users quite possibly don't
    Paul>    need to bother with bsddb 3.

Correct.  The new module has already been checked into CVS though, so Unix
types will get it as the default but be able to fall back to Version 2 (or
even 1) if they want.

don't-worry-about-us-we're-just-fine-ly, y'rs,

Skip



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