Re: External Dependency Proposal: Berkeley DB (libdb)

[Jeff Cai <Jeff Cai Sun COM>]

In Solaris Nevada, (Not OpenSolaris), we are using 4.7.25. I think 4.8
should also work.

Jeff

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 11:13 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> For years now, evolution-data-server has been dragging around its own
> copy of Berkeley DB (libdb) 4.1.25.  As I understand the back story, it
> was originally added to work around libdb's frequently changing on-disk
> database format at that time, which would break our local address book
> databases every time the format changed.
> 
> The database format hasn't been an issue for at least as long as I've
> been working on Evolution (since 2006).  It's dead weight now.  We've
> been dragging it around basically for Sun's benefit since they can't
> ship their own libdb for licensing reasons, but the Sun maintainers have
> agreed to let us drop our copy of libdb upstream and they will patch it
> back in to their own e-d-s package.
> 
> I believe most distros are already linking evolution-data-server to a
> system-wide copy of libdb, especially since Ross Burton pointed out the
> reduction in memory usage by doing so [1].
> 
> Not sure what exact version of Berkely DB to recommend.  Any reasonably
> up-to-date version should be sufficient.
> 
> Matthew Barnes
> 
> [1] http://burtonini.com/blog/computers/eds-libdb-2006-07-18-10-40
> 
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