[Dev] ZODB is not a Storage Technology (Re: other formats )

[Kevin Altis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Altis
>
> I'm not sure how this changes as you try and use a Berkley DB as a backing
> store, but it does bring up a big design point. That is, should the file
> format be portable across operating systems? I would say yes, but
> that means
> that you need the same Berkley DB format to be supported on
> Win9x/ME/NT/2K/XP, Linux, Mac OS X, and whatever else you want to support.
> Does that portable Berkley DB code and format exist, I don't think so? If

Sorry, I should have included this link to the bsddb module

7.12 bsddb -- Interface to Berkeley DB library
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-bsddb.html

Based on what it says about the Berkeley DB library...

"There are two incompatible versions of the underlying library. Version 1.85
is widely available, but has some known bugs. Version 2 is not quite as
widely used, but does offer some improvements. The bsddb module uses the
1.85 interface."

Using Berkley DB has some issues, assuming that ZODB is in fact using
bsddb?!

ka