On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:05:21PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Perl (last db4.0 "Standard" package) would most likely be a lot harder, > since it *does* expose the db interface, so it probably shouldn't be > altered until after sarge releases.
woody's perl has db2[1], so whether sarge's perl has db4.0 or db4.2 shouldn't matter in this regard. Of course, it could still be a non-trivial issue to have perl use db4.2, but that's something the maintainer needs to research. It'd be really nice if most packages in sarge agree on the db version to use, because of interoperability (i.e., such that f.e. a BDB database created with perl can be read with php4-dba and vice-versa?)[2]. --Jeroen PS: Striking difference between length of libdb2's longdescription and libdb4.x's... [1] http://packages.debian.org/stable/interpreters/perl [2] I don't know about interoperability between db4.0 and db4.2 created databases, if that's bidirectionally compatible, this doesn't matter much -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
