LSARC/2007/299 Berkeley_Database_4.5.20 - fast track restarted

[Danek Duvall]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:33:21PM -0800, Karen Langford wrote:

> We haven't received any major push back, however Danek seems concerned
> about us delivering the 2 versions in the same package and the upgrade
> steps involved - note these steps are outlined in Oracle's BDB reference
> manual and we don't have a lot of control over them since BDB is a third
> party product.

I hope that I wouldn't push you into a situation where you'd have to do
substantial work on third-party code.  That's certainly not my goal.

> Also note our customer's have requested we deliver both versions

At this point, I'd like to know why -- that's been missing from this
discussion, and I can't make a decision in good conscience without it.  If
this was explained in the pre-inception, it needs to be explained again,
because there's no record of that discussion.

> I don't know if we're breaking any new ground here as with the move to
> open source there must be other products in the same boat as us.

Many projects delivering open source code want to deliver multiple versions
of things, and it's almost always a bad idea, and they almost always don't
do it.  So no, this is a conversation the ARC has had many times in the
past.

Danek