Re: [Evolution-hackers] camel into eds

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 18:49 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 18:40 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 11:44 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:  
> > > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:27 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > > > i'm going to start moving camel into eds soon (on a branch, after i
> > > > merge the messageinfo stuff back).  its too hard to do any other way,
> > > > particularly since i want to use libdb to solve some problems and this
> > > > is the only practical way for it to have access to it.
> > > 
> > > 	What is the story these days with libdb and file-format compatibility ?
> > 
> > libdb is an embedded database.  We just embed the version we want,
> > its part of eds already.
> (and so we as a result only use the one version).
> 
> I'm thinking of doing some stuff where stable queues and the like are
> needed to do it properly, and libdb seems a reasonable way to do it.

I dunno, maybe in this case, because its not data, its ok but we seem to
have had a lot of pain with libdb in the past, witness the threading
mutex issues on 64 bit platforms we just had.  I will say having our own
internal copy has helped a lot though.

-JP
-- 
JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.