On Mar 12, 2012, at 16:46, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > If there is a serious technical problem with getting QDBM or > TokyoCabinet in your environment, please let me know -- we might retain > BDB backend (in completely unsupported state) until 3.4.0, but even that > would require a significant amount of work, so the reason should be > quite compelling (e.g. widely used commercial UNIX where both QDBM and > TokyoCabinet fail hard).
Hello Mikhail, I have used CFengine in legacy environments (RHEL 3, Solaris 8, HP/UX 11) where it was close to impossible to get CFengine compiled with TokyoCabinet (i.e.: I gave up after three hours), and only the vendor supplied Berkeley DB resulted in a successful compilation. I admit I haven't tried qdbm, at that time the only other choice was TokyoCabinet. One of the advantages of CFengine over its competitors (puppet, chef) is that it is self contained and doesn't have many dependencies, which makes it easy to compile and use on legacy systems. Adding a "modern" dependency removes this advantage. Please keep in mind there are a lot of legacy systems out there that still have to be managed. Regards, Erik -- Erik Mouw -- erik.m...@snow.nl Snow B.V. -- http://snow.nl/ _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
