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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2002-11-23 18:48:06 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2002-11-23 18:48:06 (GMT)
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Try linking the static Sleepycat lib into _bsddb.pyd. Hard to say
whether this is a correct thing to do: + There are linker warnings (see PCbuild\readme.txt). + test_bsddb passes, in both release and debug builds now. + test_bsddb3 has several failures, but it did before too. Also made pythoncore a dependency of the _bsddb project, updated build instructions, added database conversion XXX to NEWS, and fiddled the Windows installer accordingly.
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@@ -822,7 +822,9 @@ Windows
improvement over the previous Berkeley DB 1.85, which had many
bugs.
XXX What are the licensing issues here?
- XXX The debug Python still blows up (see PCbuild/readme.txt).
+ XXX If a user has a database created with a previous verion of
+ XXX Python, what must they do to convert it?
+ XXX I'm still not sure how to link this thing (see PCbuild/readme.txt).
XXX The version # is likely to change before 2.3a1.
- The Windows distribution now ships with Tcl/Tk version 8.4.1 (it