[Python-Dev] Upcoming 2.5.2 release (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Jan 31 19:25:17 CET 2008

Current bsddb module in 2.5.1 supports up to BerkeleyDB 4.5. There is support for 4.6 in trunk (future 2.6, I guess) and I'm working in a private branch at the moment, since I have no commit access to python repository. That private version is intented to be merged into python 2.6 by Greg, when time comes.

My guess is that 2.5 branch is still open to more patches than pure security/stability patches, so "backporting" BerkeleyDB 4.6 support seems reasonable (to me). If I'm wrong, please educate me :-).

I think it depends on the nature of the patch. The 2.5 branch already supports BerkeleyDB 4.6 (since r58345), so I'm not sure what else needs to be done.

This backport would include also stability patches. For example, I just solved a memory leak.

Greg, any opinion?. Beware, new kid in the block! :).

Being new is not a problem in itself. But do please take the extra work of double- and triple-checking any claims you make. If you want to become the new maintainer of the bsddb module, you need to learn how to check out a branch of Python and how to determine what patches have been applied to it.

Regards, Martin

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