Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> writes: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 12:45:22PM +1300, Daniel Reurich wrote:
[libdb4 & Bitcoin] >> The risk is that issues that have been fixed in later libdb versions >> remain broken in the version that bitcoin statically links in. So there >> is a trade off either way, and what is the better approach... fix >> bitcoin or forever hold onto an obsolete library for one package where >> the maintainers refuse to switch to a newer version. > > It's probably the job of the bitcoin developers to watch deveopments > in that other library and decide when it is safe or necessary to change > versions. There's an obvious, alternate option: libdb is (certainly at least until 4.8) BSD-licensed. This means "the right version" can just be integrated into the Bitcoin code at the expense of the developers having to maintain it themselves. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
