Re: State of BDB FS backend

Branko Čibej <[email protected]> Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:28:45 +0200
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On 24. 7. 2026 13:23, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 24. 7. 2026 13:20, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
>> On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 at 18:27, Nathan Hartman 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm glad there's a good bit of housecleaning going on around here.
>> > We've accumulated so much cruft over the years, it makes my
>> > head spin. +1 to axe the ctypes bindings.
>>
>> Speaking of cleanups, another candidate comes to mind: the BDB FS 
>> backend. I think now would be an appropriate time to remove it:
>
>
> We can't remove it before 2.0. It doesn't matter that it's deprecated, 
> it's part of the published 1.0 feature set.


Just to be clear: the existence of the BDB back-end is equivalent to a 
public API. We have many deprecated public APIs that we can't remove for 
the same reason.

-- Brane
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24. 7. 2026 13:23, Branko Čibej
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24. 7. 2026 13:20, Ivan Zhakov
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        <div dir="ltr">On Sat, 18 Jul 2026 at 18:27, Nathan Hartman &lt;<a
            href="mailto:[email protected]"
            moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">[email protected]</a>&gt;
          wrote: <br>
          &gt; I'm glad there's a good bit of housecleaning going on
          around here.<br>
          &gt; We've accumulated so much cruft over the years, it makes
          my<br>
          &gt; head spin. +1 to axe the ctypes bindings.<br>
          <br>
          Speaking of cleanups, another candidate comes to mind: the BDB
          FS backend. I think now would be an appropriate time to remove
          it:<br>
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      We can't remove it before 2.0. It doesn't matter that it's
      deprecated, it's part of the published 1.0 feature set.<br>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    <br>
    Just to be clear: the existence of the BDB back-end is equivalent to
    a public API. We have many deprecated public APIs that we can't
    remove for the same reason.<br>
    <br>
    -- Brane
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