On 2011/12/17 23:51, Nigel Taylor wrote: > This update is a requirement for the next versions of Firefox, > Thunderbird, etc, they require 3.7.7.1 or later, 3.7.9 is recommended > for KDE 4.8beta1. Various updates to sqlite3 3.7.5 but have been sent to > @ports but never committed. Chromium - chrome no longer uses the system > sqlite3 as too far behind.
We need to keep the regression tests (which the openbsd-wip version loses) and the weak-aliased pthread code (which other diffs lost), that is why they haven't been committed. In some ways it would make more sense to use an embedded copy of sqlite for applications which often need a specific version, but then we typically have symbols conflicting with a copy of sqlite pulled in via a shared library dependency (and locally renaming functions to avoid this in something like firefox is not sustainable).
