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| author | Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> | 2006-04-13 19:19:01 (GMT) |
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| committer | Gregory P. Smith <greg@mad-scientist.com> | 2006-04-13 19:19:01 (GMT) |
| commit | 3adc4aa2fb58aaca2f7692a37239ee3157887166 (patch) | |
| tree | bd1dcc7a3341c403991ba19b2bb709a38592af40 /README | |
| parent | da690411234dbd0438b7b1090750c547c92c5194 (diff) | |
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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.
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@@ -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 --------------------------- |