On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 22:15 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > IIRC, I had replied to Ross on a similar query, start GNOME 2.24. Still > OpenSUSE ships with in-built libdb. I'm not aware of any other distro. > > JPR, who use to maintain Evolution few years back, gave me the notes on > why it was decided to go this way (forking libdb). So if we have answers > for all those points, I'm fine for that. We don't want to break anything > thatz fine otherwise. I'm not tracking libdb at all, if you have the > answers, then lets recalculate and plan for it in 2.26.
Just as a data point, E-D-S on Fedora links to the system libdb. My understanding is it wasn't so much a fork as a freeze, since I guess libdb has had trouble maintaining ABI or API stability in the past. I don't think any significant changes have been made to our bundled libdb other than build-related and maybe security-related stuff. I guess the real question is whether libdb is stable these days. I don't recall any issues with it over the past year since switching over to the system library. Would be great to drop both it and our bundled libical for 2.26. Matt _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers