Why is Python 2.7 dependent on db46 and only db46

Clemens Lang cal at macports.org
Tue Jul 21 07:00:06 PDT 2015



----- On 21 Jul, 2015, at 15:43, Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org wrote:

> And even if the default +db* variant selection depends on the local
> active db* version, I guess such a change would trigger more local
> builds instead of using binary archives which should be preferred for
> most users.

However, what we could do -- and I'd argue we should -- is choose a single
"blessed" version of db and try to use it everywhere. Normally, that would
just be the latest version.

-- 
Clemens Lang


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