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Re: Excess copies of libdb



Clint Adams wrote:

>> Note that upgrading applications to new libdb versions is generally more
>> work than you expect, as on-disk databases need to be upgraded.
>> Sometimes you can use the db*_upgrade tools, sometimes you can dump and
>> reload, sometimes it's acceptable and much easier to trash the database
>> and rebuild it from scratch (man-db). It's even worse in libraries where
>> you might not realize that applications linked against you are using the
>> libdb interface you expose, and you might not be able to do anything
>> about the applications' databases in the library's maintainer scripts.
> 
> On the other hand, there are cases where you can seamlessly upgrade to a
> newer version without modifying the databases at all.
Do db4.0->db4.2 upgrades work that way often?  :-) If so, perl might be
easier to upgrade to db4.2...

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