Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/06/20/05:59:28
Hi,
The reason is quite simple, it has to do with the format of the
database. When Sleepycat switches from v2->v3.0 it requires a database
format upgrade. This makes it impossible to use v3.0 formatted
databases with applications dependant on v2 databases. As such, those
applications can only link against v2 headers and libraries. If you
read my release statement closely, you will note that my intention is to
release the other versions of The Berkeley DB in 3 day intervals. So
to answer your question, yes DB v4.0 will be released, but I want to
release the other versions first. When v3 is released, it will co-exist
with the v2 headers and libraries, but establish itself as the primary
DB by symlinking it's libraries to /usr/lib/libdb.{a la dll.a}.
Whichever db release you install last will establish itself as the
"default" db. Optimally this should be db4.0, so that is why it will be
released last.
Cheers,
Nicholas
Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
>--- Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> wrote:
>
>> Right now, that's db2. Later it will be db3.3, and even later you'll
>>get db4.0.
>>
>
>I am sorry for a stupid question. I could not find the answer in the search
>engines.
>
>What is the reason for making the package of version 2, no longer supported
>by the vendor? Why not V4 ?
>
>
>Regards,
>Stan
>
>
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