The main reason why I asked was this: the Berkeley DB (in its various versions) is alreadyYes.. we do have a gzip/libz based page compression in our version of 3.0.55.
Sleepycat did not accept the patch, but has since reimplemented something functionaly similar in the 4.x series.
Because of time & License issues it is very unlikely we'll be moving away from BDB 3.0.55 anytime soon. HtDig is now LGPL. Sleepycat gave us a license exception allowing it's use in an LGPLed project, but it is version locked to 3.0.55 and use only with HtDig software.
We may be able to move to a 4.x series when BDB issues 5.x versions.... this makes it easier to ask them to allow us to distribute their software (which normally has a GPL-like license) along with slightly more liberal LGPL licensed code.
Thanks!
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Lachlan Andrew wrote:
Greetings Robert,
Thanks for your input.
The optimisation of libdb3 is that we allow on-the-fly compression
of pages. I believe the original author of this patch (Loic, who has
since left the team) offered the patches to the Berkeley DB project
but they weren't interested. (They have a point. This patch has
caused lots of headaches in the past, mostly fixed by Neal. I think
it may be responsible for some current flakyness under cygwin.) I
agree it would be great if they adopted the patches. Feel free to
apply pressure to them :) If you do, let us know so we can approach
them at the same time.
present in the debian system. Dynamically linking against it coud shrink the package. However,
If you feel those patches are important, I wont link against the libdb, and use what you provide instead
(which will put me in an awkwards situation, but thats my problem)
Since I maintain the package anyway (and need to do the manpages, for my users to be content),Regarding the man pages, would you like to contribute the Debian
pages to our code base, for us to maintain? (Better still, would you
like to contribute them, and join the ht://Dig team as the "man pages
maintainer" to keep reminding us to document our features?)
I'd be greatly honored to join the team in this functiom.
you are both welcome. Htdig is great at what it does. :)Thanks again for the suggestions,
Lachlan
Robert
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