Re: PROPOSAL: Evolution for GNOME 2.6



On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 15:30, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 19:18, Marcin Krzyzanowski wrote:
> > wh.. when there will come the time that evolution will not need db3 ?
> > it's annoying because in distribution I use this is the only application
> > that need db3 and we need link it staticaly... but...keep a good work.
> 
> Back in the good old days of Evo 0.x, it used the locally available db3
> and dynamically linked.  And broke a lot.  The db3 maintainers don't
> take file format stability seriously or something, and upgrading the
> minor version changed the on-disk format.
> 
> Maybe this has changed with db4 (I hope so), and if so then I think that
> Evo2 should switch to db4 as it is going to have to migrate the evo1.4
> files anyway...

It will never not use db due to historical reasons (upgrading and
such).  However we are moving it into the e-d-s module to avoid this
problems.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
Ximian, Inc.




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