Re: [Evolution-hackers] Getting rid of shipped libdb

[Rob Bradford <rob robster org uk>]

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 22:15 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> Rob,
> 
> IIRC, I had replied to Ross on a similar query, start GNOME 2.24. Still
> OpenSUSE ships with in-built libdb. I'm not aware of any other distro.
> 
> JPR, who use to maintain Evolution few years back, gave me the notes on
> why it was decided to go this way (forking libdb). So if we have answers
> for all those points, I'm fine for that. We don't want to break anything
> thatz fine otherwise. I'm not tracking libdb at all, if you have the
> answers, then lets recalculate and plan for it in 2.26.

Okay. Have you got these details? It would be good to see which of those
still apply, etc..

If we do decide to keep the included libdb perhaps it would be nice to
strip it down to be the bare minimum that it needs to be...

Cheerio,

Rob