Re: Excess copies of libdb
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:05:21PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Perl (last db4.0 "Standard" package) would most likely be a lot harder,
> since it *does* expose the db interface, so it probably shouldn't be
> altered until after sarge releases.
woody's perl has db2[1], so whether sarge's perl has db4.0 or db4.2
shouldn't matter in this regard.
Of course, it could still be a non-trivial issue to have perl use db4.2,
but that's something the maintainer needs to research. It'd be really
nice if most packages in sarge agree on the db version to use, because
of interoperability (i.e., such that f.e. a BDB database created with
perl can be read with php4-dba and vice-versa?)[2].
--Jeroen
PS: Striking difference between length of libdb2's longdescription and
libdb4.x's...
[1] http://packages.debian.org/stable/interpreters/perl
[2] I don't know about interoperability between db4.0 and db4.2 created
databases, if that's bidirectionally compatible, this doesn't matter
much
--
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357)
http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
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