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On 04/06/2010 10:12 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
>> My original plan was to delay integration of pybsddb 5.x.x for 2.7.1
>> release
> 
> Bugfix releases are only for bug fixes, by definition. 2.7.1 shouldn't
> receive such a change.

In the past 2.6 received a small patch to be able to compile against BDB
4.8. There are other precedents.

> Why should it be "transparent"? Are you so confident that it won't bring
> any new problems? Given that we are talking about a new major version
> number, this sounds a bit optimistic.

pybsddb 5.0.0 compiles against BDB 5.0.x, but it doesn' support any new
feature. The diff is pretty small, and the testsuite is very extensive.
I am pretty confident.

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