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

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 22:15 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> 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.

Just as a data point, E-D-S on Fedora links to the system libdb.

My understanding is it wasn't so much a fork as a freeze, since I guess
libdb has had trouble maintaining ABI or API stability in the past.  I
don't think any significant changes have been made to our bundled libdb
other than build-related and maybe security-related stuff.

I guess the real question is whether libdb is stable these days.  I
don't recall any issues with it over the past year since switching over
to the system library.  Would be great to drop both it and our bundled
libical for 2.26.

Matt