Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 14:43:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: nordquist@platinum.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port of gdbm 1.7.3 to FreeBSD uploaded Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960412143906.93A-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604120650.XAA01222@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * I placed in in ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/gdbm-1.7.3.tar.gz. > * This was an extremely straightforward port; no work Makefile or code > * changes were required. I just had to develop the top-level Makefile > * and the package files. > > Thanks, imported! You know, while I'm always glad to see the ports collection grow, this last one puzzles me. Since we have the entire Berkeley db code in our libc, and this gives (I think) all the functionality of gdbm, well, why would you need gdbm. I know -current recently imported db.1.85, so it's really up to date. Reading the postscript docs available at the dist site, it's even supposed to be technically superior in performance to gdbm. ========================================================================== Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu, I run FreeBSD-current on n3lxx + Journey2 Three Accounts for the Super-users in the sky, Seven for the Operators in their halls of fame, Nine for Ordinary Users doomed to crie, One for the Illegal Cracker with his evil game In the Domains of Internet where the data lie. One Account to rule them all, One Account to watch them, One Account to make them all and in the network bind them.
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