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Antw: Re: mdb and bdb
>>> Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> schrieb am 19.03.2014 um 18:29 in Nachricht
<5329D3DC.3060800@symas.com>:
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> --On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:16 AM -0300 Friedrich Locke
>> <friedrich.locke@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi folks!
>>>
>>> I wonder if, with the increased interest on mdb, the support for bdb will
>>> be removed in a near future.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>
> See the slides from LDAPCon 2013. http://lanyrd.com/2013/ldapcon/sckyhk/
>
> Since Oracle has changed the license of BDB 6 to AGPLv3, most network
> services
> that used BDB will be required to migrate away from it. (This also affects
> Cyrus SASL and Heimdal Kerberos, but we already wrote LMDB drivers for them
> 3
> years ago.) And since BDB is now technologically obsolete anyway, there's no
> reason to continue to support it.
Hi!
Why is BDB technologically obsolete? Can you elabporate?
Regards,
Ulrich
>
>> Hi Friedrich,
>>
>> bdb and hdb will still exist, but be disabled by default in configure, with
>> OpenLDAP 2.5. Removal would be slated for OpenLDAP 2.6.
>
>
> --
> -- Howard Chu
> CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
> Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
> Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/