Re: berkeley DB problems

[Keith Bostic]

address@hidden (Andy Mayhew) wrote in message 
news:<address@hidden>...
>
> It should suffice that the software
> requires a particular major rev and let the administrator determine which
> minor rev best works in their environment.

When checking for Berkeley DB revisions, we recommend checking
both the major and minor numbers.  Sleepycat sometimes changes
the Berkeley DB API without revising the major number, that is,
the API is only guaranteed to be unchanged across patch number
changes.  There are details in the "Library version information"
section of the Berkeley DB Reference Guide, included in the DB 
download package and also available at:

        http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/upgrade/version.html

> I also doubt that
> the FSF would really appreciate having GPL software tarballs include
> non-GPL'd code.

We encourage groups to directly include Berkeley DB if Berkeley
DB version skew is causing them problems.  The DB license is 
GPL compatible, so including it shouldn't cause any licensing 
problems.

> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:52:40AM -0400, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
>
>> It's only a 2MB tarfile...  Seems like a small price to pay.

It's pretty easy to drop it to 1MB, if you care -- remove the
included Perl modules, test suite and documentation.
  
Regards,
--keith
 
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