On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 20:10, Not Zed wrote: > Any idea what sort of porting effort is required, if any, for db4?
Very little, there is a specific error code and conversion method when opening an older db that the addressbook already supports. The pilot stuff might have to convert too, but I've been told its like 3 lines. > On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 09:28, Christopher Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:33, JP Rosevear wrote: > > > In order to make evolution and evolution-data-server easier to build, we > > > are trying to cut out the external db3 dependency on a specific > > > version. So, I'm planning to import db3 into the tree. However, Dan > > > pointed out that we might want to import the latest db4 so that distros > > > and platforms (for instance netbsd, fink do right now, suse did at one > > > point) that didn't do this are covered. > > > > In general, I find DB4 to be much nicer. In particular, being able to do > > things like open and close files inside a transaction is a very nice > > feature to have. I'd say definitely go to the latest DB4. -JP -- JP Rosevear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ximian, Inc. _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
