[htdig-dev] Re: Some comments on 3.2.0b5 to (perhaps) take into account for final release..

[Lachlan A. <lh...@us...>]

Greetings Robert,

Thanks for your input.

The optimisation of  libdb3  is that we allow on-the-fly compression=20
of pages.  I believe the original author of this patch (Loic, who has=20
since left the team) offered the patches to the  Berkeley DB  project=20
but they weren't interested.  (They have a point.  This patch has=20
caused lots of headaches in the past, mostly fixed by Neal.  I think=20
it may be responsible for some current flakyness under cygwin.)  I=20
agree it would be great if they adopted the patches.  Feel free to=20
apply pressure to them :)  If you do, let us know so we can approach=20
them at the same time.

Regarding the  man  pages, would you like to contribute the Debian=20
pages to our code base, for us to maintain?  (Better still, would you=20
like to contribute them, and join the ht://Dig team as the "man pages=20
maintainer" to keep reminding us to document our features?)

Thanks again for the suggestions,
Lachlan

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:32, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
> -libdb3 (the Berkeley DB) is included, rather than linked against.
> This 'inflates'  the package. I have also no idea yet, where the
> optimisations against the original lie and if there are any, why
> they have not been fed back towards the authors. Is there a reason
> why you cannot simply require libdb3 the same way you require the
> zlib compression?
>
> - Manpages for the individual programs are mostly missing, so I
> need to create them and hold them up to date.

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