Dropping TDB

Stefan Bellon sbellon at sbellon.de
Mon Oct 25 22:47:11 CEST 2004


Matthias Andree wrote:
> Stefan Bellon <sbellon at sbellon.de> writes:

[snip]

> > You may have noticed that QDBM didn't need much attention over the
> > last time. If the interface stays like it is at present, then I'm
> > willing to make occasional changes if necessary. If however the
> > interface changes completely and is about to change frequently in
> > the future, then I won't update bogofilter for RISC OS anymore and
> > just fork the current version out. I had hoped that this step will
> > only come some time after 1.0 and not before ...

> The question is if the reason to offer several DBs at all still
> persists. I'd be more comfortable with a streamlined code that had
> less options to build and run, which will ease support, results in
> better testing and usually better code quality.

The problem is that for RISC OS there is no BerkeleyDB available.
Otherwise I would fully agree with you. But if Bogofilter only runs
with BerkeleyDB in the future, then this future is without RISC OS.

-- 
Stefan Bellon



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