Re: [Evolution-hackers] db3 and db4

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Any idea what sort of porting effort is required, if any, for db4?

 Michael

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 09:28, Christopher Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:33, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > In order to make evolution and evolution-data-server easier to build, we
> > are trying to cut out the external db3 dependency on a specific
> > version.  So, I'm planning to import db3 into the tree.  However, Dan
> > pointed out that we might want to import the latest db4 so that distros
> > and platforms (for instance netbsd, fink do right now, suse did at one
> > point) that didn't do this are covered.
>
> In general, I find DB4 to be much nicer. In particular, being able to do
> things like open and close files inside a transaction is a very nice
> feature to have. I'd say definitely go to the latest DB4.