-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 17, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote: >> On Jul 17, 2008, at 7:27 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >>> >>> bsddb is in a very bad shape, as the 2.6 code hasn't been merged >>> into >>> 3k. I somewhat doubt that this gets resolved before the release, so >>> bsddb users might need to skip 3.0. >> >> >> In fact, bsddb as packages in core Python has rarely been in good >> shape. >> >> Has anyone actually considered that bsddb might do better if >> maintained >> strictly as an external package? That would make it easier for the >> any >> maintainers to release updates, and removes a source of frustration >> for >> users who either don't need it or would rather wait for a happier >> version. >> >> I think this is worth considering. I vaguely recall that the bsddb >> module >> was maintained before it was incorporated into the core Python >> release. > > +1. In my recollection maintaining bsddb has been nothing but trouble > right from the start when we were all sitting together at "Zope Corp > North" in a rented office in McLean... We can remove it from 3.0. We > can't really remove it from 2.6, but we can certainly start > end-of-lifing it in 2.6. +1, but please, after I make tonight's releases. :) - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBSIAFenEjvBPtnXfVAQKEewP+OWCBAH437X4+EptdcuIFFYrCCVXqbrV4 F2dZMyv/RU0jYgd6YTLspklEIzuEcH1sxYsnh2q4aWNfFlfL50LPf1/TKurZpO2C 9CrjEZpTcK0k5z5FCxAOLdVFLQDC4w7FGYop3uR27g5u9KCLdQvTrPs/mZllv263 /g2YdwhZFEE= =NAOe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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