From 959c7727f4e9be7dabd2bff2a3cd1917c75f5fe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Skip Montanaro Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:45:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a little more verbiage about the bsddb module/package change. It's clear from recent discussions on c.l.py that people are a bit confused about the differences between the old bsddb, the new bssdb, the bsddb3/PyBSDDB package and changes to file formats. Tried to clarify the issues. --- Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex index f20c2084274..80e829b0a47 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew23.tex @@ -1266,7 +1266,14 @@ The old version of the module has been renamed to have to edit \file{Modules/Setup} to enable it. Note that the new \module{bsddb} package is intended to be compatible with the old module, so be sure to file bugs if you discover any -incompatibilities. +incompatibilities. When upgrading to Python 2.3, if you also change +the underlying BerkeleyDB library, you will almost certainly have to +convert your database files to the new version. You can do this +fairly easily with the new scripts \file{db2pickle.py} and +\file{pickle2db.py} which you will find in the distribution's +Tools/scripts directory. If you've already been using the PyBSDDB +package, importing it as \module{bsddb3}, you will have to change your +\code{import} statements. \item The Distutils \class{Extension} class now supports an extra constructor argument named \var{depends} for listing