Re: 2.5 deprecated backends

--On Sunday, August 8, 2021 6:32 PM +0100 Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> For 2.5, we deprecated:
>>
>> back-ndb
>> back-sql
>> back-perl
>>
>> Should these be removed for 2.6?
>
> I still routinely build back-perl in master. Is there any reason to
> remove it?

Not necessarily, that's why I started the discussion.  back-bdb was 
deprecated with 2.3, but was around for all of 2.4 as well.  I see no 
reason to keep back-ndb around.  back-sql has numerous open issues, but 
I've no real insight into whether it retains any usefulness.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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