Berkeley DB in our source tree?

We're going to use Berkeley DB (`Sleepycat') for the filesystem. It
would be possible to reimplement the stuff it provides for ourselves
(locking, transactions, recovery, etc.) but I don't see any point.
It's very general, and the interfaces are done well.

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