[Spambayes] The database question that would not die

Richie Hindle richie at entrian.com
Tue Dec 3 19:08:07 2002


[Skip]
> Yes, unfortunately the Python Windows installer is distributed with Berkeley
> DB 1.85.

I should have said "except Windows" - I know we need to special-case that
one.

> Has anyone considered Sleepycat's caveats about using 1.85?

I've read it, and although we might not hit any of the specific problems
they mention right now, it seemed sufficiently scary to put me off using
it.  Who knows what code will be added to spambayes in the future - we
can't make any assumptions.

I think the patch Neale posted today does an excellent job of avoiding the
problems - let's go with that.

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Richie Hindle
richie@entrian.com




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