On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 01:16, Chris Adams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Once upon a time, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel@xxxxxxxxx> said: > > Is there any software or service that currently uses Berkeley DB that > > cannot reasonably be discarded and rebuilt from scratch for new > > versions of that software, without Berkeley DB entirely, as part of a > > Fedora release? > > BDB is kind of a part of the collective history of Unix systems and > assumed to always be available. Is there nobody interested in > maintaining the final license-compatible version in a pure bugfix mode? > Does it get that many bugs? It does get some and most of them are gnarly ones where if you fix that bug you have now introduced a whole new class of bugs for some other set of users. There are 30 years of software which expect BDB to work like it was when the program was originally written. You need to be an archaeologist of knowing how BDB acted in 1994 to 2019 with all the little tweaks and changes which have happened during that. You also have to 'add' new features because someone is going to write some new language or coding paradigm which needs changes. I would expect keeping this up would require a full time company of programmers and equipment to build all the test cases that would be needed to try and support this. -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ 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
