Le jeudi 16 janvier 2020 à 20:52 -0700, Jerry James a écrit : > On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 8:29 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > The lack of a good backup tool for Berkeley DB earned me nearly a > > year > > of contracting salary from the BBC to keep alive an obsolete > > Berkeley > > DB and Apache 1.3 on RHEL systems long after httpd 2.x was > > released. > > It was discarded by Subversion with good cause. > > > > Why does XEmacs need to preserve a database? > > It may not. XEmacs provides a generic "database" interface in Emacs > Lisp. The underlying database can be libdb, gdbm, ndbm, and probably > something else I've forgotten. XEmacs itself only uses that > interface to keep a Unicode code point database. That is easily > recreated. Just port xemacs to Harfbuzz, fontconfig and the rest of the freedesktop text stack. That will solve this issue and many others. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
