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

Richie Hindle richie at entrian.com
Tue Dec 3 23:27:28 2002


Hi François,

> From: Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com>
> [...]
> 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.

Thanks to you and Jack for the confirmation - this should mean we don't
need to treat the Mac in any special way in terms of database type.
Neale's recent edits should pick up gdbm, and all should be well.

-- 
Richie Hindle
richie@entrian.com




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