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Re: Add Berkeley DB 4.6 support to Subversion?

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: 2007-09-13 20:37:30 CEST

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Oracle has released version 4.6.19 of its Berkeley DB library. According to
> my interpretation of the "Upgrading application to 4.6.x"[1] documentation,
> I don't think there's anything especially difficult for us to do in
> Subversion to make the claim that we support 4.6.x. Some macros for cursor
> function name differences here, an examination of how we toggle verbose
> error output there. (Most of the 4.6 changes seem to be focused around
> replication, which is -- and has been -- the latest hot topic for BDB.)
>
> Should we "go there" for Subversion 1.5?
>
> [1]
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ref/upgrade.4.6/toc.html

+1.

Using BDB's replication to replicate Subversion repositories would be pretty
sweet. Presumably, this would also allow us to replicate uncommitted
transactions, which would be cool (well, cool for my project, where I expect
long-lived transactions).

Blair

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