Re: Python 2.7 – allow another db version beside 4.8

[Joshua Root]

On 2017-12-24 04:28 , Clemens Lang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 12:39:34PM +0100, Vincent Habchi wrote:
>> I’ve a made a private change to my python27 Portfile to allow it to
>> use DB60 instead of the default DB48, which was installed only for its
>> needs. I think allowing people (through a variant) to build a Python
>> 2.7 version which relies on another version of DB would be nice.
> 
> Is there a reason to not just always use a newer version?

Just as a data point, the _bsddb.so in the binary installer from
python.org appears to be statically linked against Berkeley DB 4.7.25.
And to turn the question around, what is gained by using the newer version?

- Josh