On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 at 18:27, Nathan Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm glad there's a good bit of housecleaning going on around here. > We've accumulated so much cruft over the years, it makes my > head spin. +1 to axe the ctypes bindings.
Speaking of cleanups, another candidate comes to mind: the BDB FS backend. I think now would be an appropriate time to remove it: - The BDB FS backend has been deprecated since Subversion 1.8.0 (June 2013) [1]. - Keeping BDB around may complicate developing new FS features, because any new functionality must either be implemented and tested for the deprecated backend or have special casing to exclude it. I don't have any specific FS feature in mind, that is more of a generic observation. - We don't seem to have any serious known issues with BDB [2], which could justify fixing them before removing that backend. - We promised that such removal would be announced in advance [1], and I think that the release notes are a suitable place to make such an announcement. [[[ At some point, support for the BDB backend will be completely removed. We will announce such removal well in advance of its happening. ]]] So, I propose that we remove the BDB FS backend on trunk (Subversion 1.16.x) and announce this decision as part of the Subversion 1.15.0 release notes. Thoughts? [1]: https://subversion-staging.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#bdb-deprecated [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SVN%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20component%20%3D%20libsvn_fs_base -- Ivan Zhakov
