Re: PROPOSAL: Evolution for GNOME 2.6

[JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:44, JP Rosevear wrote:
> 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.

We have now done this.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>
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