Re: [Tracker] status of 0.6.90?

[Ivan Frade <ivan frade nokia com>]

Hi Michael,

El sÃb, 04-10-2008 a las 02:52 +0200, ext Michael Biebl escribiÃ:
> 2008/10/4 Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com>:
> > There are also a load of other issues that need correcting:
> >
> >
> > 3) Needs to be fully backward compatible with API and config options.
> > Its likely that we will have to force a reindex for 0.6.6 as Im not sure
> > db will work with old versions. I would rather have sqlite fts and xesam
> > db support as well as flattened tables in to prevent the next few
> > versions forcing a reindex after each upgrade if that is the case (IE I
> > would rather do the reindex once if possible)
>
> Btw, what are your plans regarding qdbm? As it is still used, would it
> be an option to switch to its successor, tokyocabinet [1]?

The idea is to replace QDBM with the FTS module of SQLite. 

Tokyocabinet is not an improvement in functionality, and our version of
QDBM has been optimized/fixed for our requirements. In the code is
almost trivial to replace it, but you can find unexpected problems with
concurrency (for instance).

Ivan