On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 3:16 PM Daniel Sahlberg <daniel.l.sahlb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I was reading through INSTALL and noticed under I,C.9 there is text > suggesting to fetch a pre-compiled version of Berkeley DB for Windows from > tigris.org. That doesn't work anymore. > > I'm suggesting to just remove this completely: > > [[[ > Index: INSTALL > =================================================================== > --- INSTALL (revision 1920954) > +++ INSTALL (working copy) > @@ -447,15 +447,7 @@ > the detection to succeed, the dynamic linker must be able to find > the libraries at configure time. > > - If you are on the Windows platform and want to build Subversion, > - a precompiled version of the Berkeley DB library is available for > - download at the Subversion web site "Documents & files" area: > > - > http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=688 > - > - Look in the "Releases > Windows > Windows BDB" section. > - > - > 10. Cyrus SASL library (OPTIONAL) > > If the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) library > ]]] > > WDYT? > +1, definitely. Since BDB support in Subversion is already deprecated since 1.8 [1], i.e. already more than 10 years! I have never bothered to test the Windows releases with BDB, it's already hard enough as it is :-). Now that you mention it, [1] says: [[[ At some point, support for the BDB back-end will be completely removed. We will announce such removal well in advance of its happening. ]]] Maybe it's long overdue that we actually do that? It's been deprecated for a decade ... Though as we promised here, we should "announce such removal well in advance", so not sure how we should go about it. [1] https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#bdb-deprecated -- Johan
