Bogofilter-0.94.0 - new current release

[Prof Prlwytzkofski]

Personally, I think this is a great compromise. Everybody can get what 
he/she wants in an easy way. Backwards compatibility is guaranteed by 
the self-detecting mechanism. Excellent work.

Just my 2 cents ..

P

Matthias Andree wrote:

>R Kimber <rkimber at ntlworld.com> writes:
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>>I converted to transactions because I thought that was necessary for
>>bogofilter in the future.
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>You can just leave things as they are. My personal opinion is that we
>should remove everything that is non-transactional because anything that
>falls short of providing atomicity and durability guarantees will trash
>your database if interrupted at the wrong moment.
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>The switch to default to non-TXN was made by David without my consent,
>and we currently diverge on whether transactions should be default or
>no. I think they should, David is a more concerned about making
>bogofilter more complex to manage. No big deal, we'll let the users
>choose for now until we have reached a consensus and I have fixed the
>code to help with maintenance concerns. Resizing the environment is one
>of the large remaining issues.
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>>If I wanted to revert to the non-
>>transactional approach, is it just a matter of deleting the __db* and
>>log* files and then installing 0.94.0?
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>Just deleting the __db.* and log.* files is not sanctioned by Berkeley
>DB documentation; so if you want to play safe, use bogoutil -d to dump
>the database to a text file, remove the __db.*, log.* AND *.db files and
>then reload the text file into the database with bogoutil
>--db-transaction=no -l.
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