[Python-Dev] 2.3.1 is (almost) a go (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim at zope.com
Wed Sep 24 12:01:04 EDT 2003

Adding spambayes-dev in case anyone there has more reliable info.

[Anthony Baxter]

I haven't been following the spambayes lists too closely. Are there concrete problems with bsddb that are cropping up, or just a general wariness of it?

If there is a problem with bsddb, it needs to be addressed. Too many things depend on it.

Reports of database corruption are common in spambayes. At least one knowledgable tester reported his problems went away after moving to a recent Sleepycat release (4.1.25, IIRC). I'm not sure any reports have come from people using the Outlook client (I was happy using a dict, but switched all 3 of my Outlook classifiers to use Berkeley instead, hoping to provoke a problem -- but no luck yet). They seem to come from non-Outlook people using Berkeley for the message info database. Richie got a whittled down threaded test that fails on Windows and Linux, and there's already a (Python) bug report open on that; it's not thought to be relevant to how spambayes uses Berkeley, though.

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