[Spambayes] Fwd: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Database engine

[FrançoisGranger]

>Delivered-To: online.fr-francois.granger@free.fr
>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:24:30 +0100
>Subject: Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Database engine
>Cc: MacPython <pythonmac-sig@python.org>
>To: François Granger <francois.granger@free.fr>
>From: Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com>
>
>
>On maandag, dec 2, 2002, at 18:21 Europe/Amsterdam, François Granger wrote:
>
>>On the Spambayes mailing list there was a discussion about the quality of
>>the current bsddb database engine on Windows platforms. I was asked the
>>question of how it is on Mac OS9 side. All I could say is that anydbm rely
>>on gdbm. But I don't know which engine it is.
>>
>>Anyone knows a little on this ?
>
>It's the gdbm engine. This is a GNU database engine of approximately 
>10-12 years old. It used to be popular in its day, but nowadays most 
>people seem to prefer bsddb. But gdbm was reasonably easy to port to 
>MacOS9, and I never looked at bsddb afterwards.
>--
>- Jack Jansen        <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com>       
>http://www.cwi.nl/~jack -
>- If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- 
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