[oi-dev] 1262 Berkeley-db package

[Gordon Ross]

The other historical problem with BDB is that they have on numerous
occasions changed the on-disk format, so just relinking an application
with a newer lib can easily break applications.  That's far worse than
the API instability.

Gordon

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> wrote:
> This is because Berkeley DB used to be famously bad at back/forward
> compatible of ABI or API.  (it at least used to be the canonical
> example of sucking at it).
>
> It doesn't seem wise to ship just one 'bdb' unless someone can say for
> certain that they got better, otherwise it's just asking for trouble
> (or at least forced rebuilds of every piece of software linking to
> it).
>
> -- Rich
>
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