RE: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Armin B. Resch
Thanks, guys, for your insights wrt the bsddb module which appears to be deprecated, possibly in part due to the pitfalls you described. I guess one way forward to ameliorate API ugliness was to abstract it behind a separate python package (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bsddb3/4.8.0). Perhaps, under

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Thanks, guys, for your insights wrt the bsddb module which appears to be deprecated, possibly in part due to the pitfalls you described. I guess one way forward to ameliorate API ugliness was to abstract it behind a separate python package

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Oct 3, 2009, at 5:13 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Sat, Oct 03, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Thanks, guys, for your insights wrt the bsddb module which appears to be deprecated, possibly in part due to the pitfalls you described. I guess one way forward to ameliorate API ugliness

RE: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Armin B. Resch
Hi Ralf, Thanks for that. Option 6 is not unlike the first one, then. Your suggestion is interesting, though. I do use the -r option against a local mirror, but would have dealt with situations like that by simply adding the offending package to an exclusion list on the build command (after

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Sat, Oct 03, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Thanks, guys, for your insights wrt the bsddb module which appears to be deprecated, possibly in part due to the pitfalls you described. I guess one way forward to ameliorate API ugliness was to

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Sat, Oct 03, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Thanks for that. Option 6 is not unlike the first one, then. Your suggestion is interesting, though. I do use the -r option against a local mirror, but would have dealt with situations like that by simply adding the offending package to an exclusion