On Saturday, 5 November 2016 18:04:35 CET Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > > We support Berkley DB (AuthDBMType db) in apr-util. Are there any > > advantages of gdbm over db? > > Heh. I interpret this question as a suggestive one, suggesting there are > none.
I really did not know. Thanks for the research. > Ok... I'm still interested in your view about the advantages of > preventing users from using gdbm by not providing it as a choice, but > besides that, I think I'm going to do see about switching to db instead > of gdbm. It's especially the clumsy copy behaviour that I'd be happy > about to eliminate. I think gdbm support was removed at a time where apr-util did not support loading the drivers dynamically only when configured. And always having two db libs loaded for any apr-util using process would be bloat. Since apr-util now compiles db drivers as separate .so, I don't think that there is any reason not to compile gdbm support. I will add it in the next upload. Cheers, Stefan
