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authorGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2006-04-13 19:19:01 (GMT)
committerGregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com>2006-04-13 19:19:01 (GMT)
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raise the minimum supported BerkeleyDB version to 3.3 and add notes to
news about this and a couple other recent fixes.
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex5
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS11
-rw-r--r--README5
-rw-r--r--setup.py11
4 files changed, 19 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
index fa7bb4b..a5cda6d 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libbsddb.tex
@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@ other objects as keys or to store other kinds of objects the user must
serialize them somehow, typically using \function{marshal.dumps()} or
\function{pickle.dumps}.
-Starting with Python 2.3 the \module{bsddb} module requires the
-Berkeley DB library version 3.2 or later (it is known to work with 3.2
-through 4.3 at the time of this writing).
+The \module{bsddb} module requires a Berkeley DB library version from
+3.3 thru 4.4.
\begin{seealso}
\seeurl{http://pybsddb.sourceforge.net/}{Website with documentation
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1e242d0..f397739 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -44,7 +44,16 @@ Extension Modules
- Bug #1467952: os.listdir() now correctly raises an error if readdir()
fails with an error condition.
-- Fix bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
+- Fixed bsddb.db.DBError derived exceptions so they can be unpickled.
+
+- Bug #1117761: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
+ the cachesize parameter.
+
+- Bug #1149413: bsddb.*open() no longer raises an exception when using
+ a temporary db (file=None) with the 'n' flag to truncate on open.
+
+- Bug #1332852: bsddb module minimum BerkeleyDB version raised to 3.3
+ as older versions cause excessive test failures.
Library
-------
diff --git a/README b/README
index 26e0ec0..ca694b5 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -719,14 +719,13 @@ Configuring the bsddb and dbm modules
Beginning with Python version 2.3, the PyBsddb package
<http://pybsddb.sf.net/> was adopted into Python as the bsddb package,
exposing a set of package-level functions which provide
-backwards-compatible behavior. Only versions 3.1 through 4.1 of
+backwards-compatible behavior. Only versions 3.3 through 4.4 of
Sleepycat's libraries provide the necessary API, so older versions
aren't supported through this interface. The old bsddb module has
been retained as bsddb185, though it is not built by default. Users
wishing to use it will have to tweak Modules/Setup to build it. The
dbm module will still be built against the Sleepycat libraries if
-other preferred alternatives (ndbm, gdbm) are not found, though
-versions of the Sleepycat library prior to 3.1 are not considered.
+other preferred alternatives (ndbm, gdbm) are not found.
Building the sqlite3 module
---------------------------
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3681589..61c1fec 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -571,14 +571,13 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
# Sleepycat Berkeley DB interface. http://www.sleepycat.com
#
- # This requires the Sleepycat DB code. The earliest supported version
- # of that library is 3.2, the latest supported version is 4.4. A list
- # of available releases can be found at
- #
- # http://www.sleepycat.com/update/index.html
+ # This requires the Sleepycat DB code. The supported versions
+ # are set below. Visit http://www.sleepycat.com/ to download
+ # a release. Most open source OSes come with one or more
+ # versions of BerkeleyDB already installed.
max_db_ver = (4, 4)
- min_db_ver = (3, 2)
+ min_db_ver = (3, 3)
db_setup_debug = False # verbose debug prints from this script?
# construct a list of paths to look for the header file in on