[Boxbackup-dev] Switch from BDB to QDBM (was re: COMMIT r2631)

Chris Wilson chris at qwirx.com
Wed Feb 24 18:33:50 GMT 2010


Hi Stewart and James,

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Stewart Adam wrote:
> On 2010/02/23 3:05 PM, James O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> In terms of packages, would it therefore be fair to say that only the 
>> bundled version of QDBM will be supported/detected by configure?

Yes, in fact I was planning to remove the autodetection entirely and 
simple rely on the bundled copy being there and usable, for simplicity.

>> What I'm getting at is whether packagers should or should not put in 
>> dependencies for any OS-supplied version of QDBM (if any, whether it be 
>> in base OS or another package).

I think it would be better not to add any dependencies for external QDBM.

> Would it be possible to have the configure script probe for and use the 
> bundled version only QDBM wasn't found on the system? I know that many 
> distros (especially Fedora) frown upon bundled libraries.

I would rather avoid it if possible. It's not a big library, it's not 
common, I don't believe there is a security issue, and I want to avoid 
reintroducing the version hell that we're escaping by using a known, fixed 
version of qdbm with each build on every platform.

Cheers, Chris.
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