Re: Berkeley DB in our source tree?

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Jim Blandy wrote:
> So, here's my question: should I just import Berkeley DB into our
> repository on a vendor branch, or should we simply tell people,
> "Install Berkeley DB 3.1.4 before you build Subversion" and stay out
> of it? What would folks prefer?

Is Berkeley DB specifically required, or any *dbm? (gdbm, sdbm, etc)

Either way, I'm a fan of modularity, so I'd argue for making it an
external dependency, though I might argue for including it in the
release tarball.

        Brian
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:06 2006