Re: CLD doesn't build on db-4.3

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

On 04/01/2010 07:01 AM, Samba - BoYang wrote:
> hi, *
>      CLD doesn't build on db-4.3 on suse 11, since db-4.3 uses deprecated
> structure members DBC->c_xxx(c_close(), etc) instead of DBC->xxx. :-)
>
>      It won't build on db-4.4, either. probably won't build on db-4.5, as
> db-5.0 says DBC->xxx was introduced in db-4.6. :-) Should we disable
> support for 4.3 - 4.5 and add 4.9 - 5.0?

I'd answer "yes", by a circuitous route:  if I understand things 
correctly, the replicated PAXOS db4 backend that we are heading towards 
(see the 'replica' branch of 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/daemon/cld/cld.git) was buggy in early db4 
releases.

Therefore, it sounds like we could eliminate two issues with a single 
change, by removing support for db 4.3 - 4.5, the DBC issue and the 
PAXOS issue.

I'm fine with adding support for 4.9+ as long as the APIs function in a 
compatible manner.

Want to create the simple patch for this?  :)

Thanks,

	Jeff