Re: ITP: tdb (Trivial DataBase)

2001-05-08 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 08, Wichert Akkerman scribbled: > Previously Marek Habersack wrote: > > Put that way it makes perfect sense. But why use libtool then? > > last time I checked they didn't use libtool, although that might > have changed since then. 1.0.3 most definitely uses it :) > > > It might seem th

Re: ITP: tdb (Trivial DataBase)

2001-05-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marek Habersack wrote: > Put that way it makes perfect sense. But why use libtool then? last time I checked they didn't use libtool, although that might have changed since then. > It might seem that they are planning/thinking of making it a bit larger > project. That's not what I hear

Re: ITP: tdb (Trivial DataBase)

2001-05-08 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 08, Wichert Akkerman scribbled: > Previously Marek Habersack wrote: > > I plan to write an extension to Pike that uses tdb - it should be used as a > > shared library in that case. The upstream sources generate a well working > > .so, so I thought it might be nice to have it in Debian. Al

Re: ITP: tdb (Trivial DataBase)

2001-05-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marek Habersack wrote: > I plan to write an extension to Pike that uses tdb - it should be used as a > shared library in that case. The upstream sources generate a well working > .so, so I thought it might be nice to have it in Debian. Also, there might > be some code in Caudium that wil

Re: ITP: tdb (Trivial DataBase)

2001-05-08 Thread Marek Habersack
** On May 08, Wichert Akkerman scribbled: > Previously Marek Habersack wrote: > > I intent to package tdb (the Trivial Database) which is a GDBM work-alike. > > The tdb, unlike GDBM, has support for multiple simultaneous writers and > > internal locking to protect from overlapped writes. From the

Re: ITP: tdb (Trivial DataBase)

2001-05-08 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Marek Habersack wrote: > I intent to package tdb (the Trivial Database) which is a GDBM work-alike. > The tdb, unlike GDBM, has support for multiple simultaneous writers and > internal locking to protect from overlapped writes. From the upstream > readme: tdb is definitely an excellen

ITP: tdb (Trivial DataBase)

2001-05-08 Thread Marek Habersack
Hello, I intent to package tdb (the Trivial Database) which is a GDBM work-alike. The tdb, unlike GDBM, has support for multiple simultaneous writers and internal locking to protect from overlapped writes. From the upstream readme: This is a simple database API. It was inspired by the realisat