Re: [Gramps-devel] bsddb3-5.0.0 and gramps

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2010/4/23 Peter Landgren <pet...@te...>

> FYI:
>
> For bsddb3 4.8.4 I did a normal install of Python 2.6 and Gramps and then
> installed
> bsddb3-4.8.4.win32-py2.6.exe
>
> I had to move "libdb48.dll" from
> c:\Python26\bsddb3\utils\
> to
> c:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\bsddb3\
>
> in order to get it to work on Windows XP SP3.
> The same procedure did NOT work on Windows 7. No idea why at the moment.
>

Just moving things would also not work anymore on linux in many cases.
Python now works with egg files and such that contain locations. So perhaps
your python version is different on win7.

Benny

>
> /Peter
>
> > As long as bsddb is part of python, we should assume users are running
> the
> > version their distribution comes with. We _never_ require a specific
> > version of bsddb to be a specific version number, so as to be sure we can
> > just use the python bsddb version.
> > Users, and developers, are of course free to
> > 1/recompile/install bsddb to have the latest version
> > 2/create a new bsddb package for python (eg by creating a bsddb3 python
> > package) based on the new bsddb
> > 3/make sure gramps is using the newest version.
> >
> > Doing above is not for the faint of heart!!
> >
> > Benny
> >
> > 2010/4/23 Gerald Britton <ger...@gm...>
> >
> > > You can use it but I am not sure there are packages for Windows and
> > > Mac users or the popular Linux distros. Ubuntu has it but what about
> > > the rest?
> > >
> > > Otoh by the time a new trunk release is ready there may be no problem.
> > >
> > > On 4/22/10, Rob Healey <rob...@gm...> wrote:
> > > > Greetings Everyone:
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know of any reasons not to use this new bsddb version
> with
> > > > gramps development version???
> > > >
> > > > Would it make any difference if I did use this?
> > > >
> > > > Sincerely yours,
> > > > Rob G. Healey
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sent from my mobile device
> > >
> > > Gerald Britton
> > >
> > >
> > >
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