Subject: Re: db2 licence (was Re: CVS commit: cryptosrc-us)
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
From: Neil A. Carson <neil@liberate.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/30/1999 10:38:42
Greg Hudson wrote:
>
> > Would it make sense to adopt the MIT "db2" into the base
> > NetBSD distribution?
>
> It uses a different database format than the current NetBSD db
> library. Why go through the pain of changing database formats just to
> sync with a library which nobody is really maintaining?
Does it fix any of the well-known bugs in the existing libc db code?
Neil