Re: Subversion's use of Berkeley DB [#11511]

Keith Bostic <bostic@abyssinian.sleepycat.com> writes:
> I'll make a deal -- if someone in the Subversion development
> group will help me build and test a solution, I'll try and
> maintain the resulting code in the Berkeley DB distribution.

Keith, I'm very interested.

By "build and test" do you mean "design and test" or "compile and
test"? My competence to do the former is currently minimal -- I'm
happy to learn, it just may take some time. The latter, on the other
hand, I'm ready to start right now :-).

In a later mail you wrote:

> To use Berkeley DB, you have to conform to its requirements for
> running database recovery -- which requirements are explicitly
> documented. I'm happy to work with you to develop code that
> allows Subversion to conform to those requirements, but to not
> conform to the requirements and then complain that DB is brittle
> when it fails, isn't reasonable.

... to which I can only add "Amen".

-Karl

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Received on Mon Dec 13 18:09:07 2004