> Well, can you recommend some other alternative? You mentioned db-tests
> you created, etc. Did you evaluate any other dbm libraries useable for
> us from the licensing perspective?
No -- there aren't a lot of choices here, and nothing that is a
good enough choice that it's worth rewriting everyone's data to
switch.
>> Nvi won't require upgrading the library's dbm support. Berkeley DB 3.X
>> supports inclusion of multiple DB versions in a single application.
>> Nvi's simple solution is to include a copy of DB in the nvi
>> distribution.
>
> Well, may be that's how the nvi application will be distributed, but I
> doubt, that's how the nvi part of the FreeBSD will be built... In all
> probability, the new nvi will just get hacked to work with dbm-1.85 or
> gdbm.
Nvi needs some of the features of Berkeley DB 3.X (transactional
logging) in order to fix long-standing bugs in the application.
Regards,
--keith
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