On Fri, 24 Jul 2026 at 13:20, Ivan Zhakov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 at 18:27, Nathan Hartman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm glad there's a good bit of housecleaning going on around here. > > We've accumulated so much cruft over the years, it makes my > > head spin. +1 to axe the ctypes bindings. > > Speaking of cleanups, another candidate comes to mind: the BDB FS backend. > I think now would be an appropriate time to remove it: > > - The BDB FS backend has been deprecated since Subversion 1.8.0 (June > 2013) [1]. > - Keeping BDB around may complicate developing new FS features, because > any new functionality must either be implemented and tested for the > deprecated backend or have special casing to exclude it. I don't have any > specific FS feature in mind, that is more of a generic observation. > - We don't seem to have any serious known issues with BDB [2], which could > justify fixing them before removing that backend. > - We promised that such removal would be announced in advance [1], and I > think that the release notes are a suitable place to make such an > announcement. > [[[ > At some point, support for the BDB backend will be completely removed. We > will announce such removal well in advance of its happening. > ]]] > > So, I propose that we remove the BDB FS backend on trunk (Subversion > 1.16.x) and announce this decision as part of the Subversion 1.15.0 release > notes. > > Thoughts? > > [1]: > https://subversion-staging.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#bdb-deprecated > [2]: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SVN%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20component%20%3D%20libsvn_fs_base > > As far I see there is consensus on this topic. I removed support for BDB FS backend in r1940162.
Thanks! -- Ivan Zhakov
