On Tuesday 25 March 2008 20:01:03 Peter Buschman wrote: > At 19:48 25.3.2008, David Boyes wrote: > > > The problem with all "libraries" is either porting, which apparently > > > >with > > > > > dbm > > > is not a problem, or the license. About the only license that works > > > >with > > > > > Bacula is the BSD 3 clause license. Can you point me to code that is > > > small > > > and appropriately licensed? > > > >Gdbm (the GNU variant of dbm) can be obtained from ftp.gnu.org or the > >Usual Sources. It's clean enough for Debian, but YMMV.
GPL is uncompatible with bacula core... > >Ndbm (the 4.4BSD dbm and the one shipped (I think) on solaris) should be > >already present, or in most distributions. It's used by sendmail, so > >should be present anywhere there's sendmail. > > > >Whether these are clean enough for you to use, I don't have any way of > >telling. Gdbm is known to work well on Linux, Windows and Solaris; AIX > >has spotty reports, HP/UX also has spotty reports. Irix has ndbm. > > FWIW, all of the code for SQLite is in the public domain > (http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html). Although I haven't looked > under the hood, it undoubtedly uses some kind of hash algorithm for > indexing and the authors note that they moved from gdbm to their own > library for performance reasons. Since SQLite compiles cleanly > everywhere Bacula does, it is possible there might be a dbm-like api > within easy reach and without license encumberments of any kind. SQlite is too big for just a hash usage, i don't think that you can use only the hash-disk code directly. It's true that good libraries exist for this job. For example DB Berkeley is present everywhere and the licence is compatible. But it add a dependency on client side. We can also try to detect if the library is present, and failback to bacula hash table code if not... ? Bye ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
