On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Alexander Hansen wrote:
> >
> > The problem is that db3 and db31 both provide db, and fink doesn't want
> > to remove db31 in preference to db3, because you have a package that
> > requires db31 explicitly, (Evolution?)
>
> You are right, I hadn't seen this. Other packages depend on db3
> explicitly, so there is no easy way out right now. You have to choose
> one or the other.

Is there any particular reason that db3 and db4 can't coexist? Is db4 not
backwards compatible, or buggy, or something? Or for that matter, is there
any benefit that db4 provides over db3 that would make it worthwhile, even
if porting some software might introduce bugs? I would hope that this
can't be a problem, if the interface remains the same -- but does it?

I'll admit that I'm [obviously] not aware of the version details or how
they might differ, I'm just used to using & working with higher level
wrappers like DBM, and not with DB* directly. It just seems annoying that
the two versions have difficulty co-existing (or the newer one can't just
supercede the older).


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