bsddb not completely removed

[amauryfa]

BPO	3791
Nosy	@loewis, @birkenfeld, @ronaldoussoren, @amauryfa, @karlcow
Files	remove-bsddb.patch

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assignee = 'https://github.com/amauryfa'
closed_at = <Date 2009-06-04.09:30:47.046>
created_at = <Date 2008-09-06.00:32:25.038>
labels = ['expert-installation']
title = 'bsddb not completely removed'
updated_at = <Date 2009-06-04.09:30:47.044>
user = 'https://github.com/amauryfa'

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activity = <Date 2009-06-04.09:30:47.044>
actor = 'georg.brandl'
assignee = 'amaury.forgeotdarc'
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closed_date = <Date 2009-06-04.09:30:47.046>
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priority = 'normal'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue3791'
versions = ['Python 2.5']

[amauryfa]

Some remnants of the defunct bsddb module, on windows:

• _bsddb44.lib is still compiled (but never used anywhere)
• _bsddb.py is still referenced by the msi installer

This is a release blocker: the installer won't work.

[amauryfa]

There are many other places with bsddb. I tried to list all the files here:

Doc\library\collections.rst
Doc\library\dbm.rst
Doc\library\shelve.rst
Doc\reference\datamodel.rst
Lib\pydoc_topics.py
Lib\shelve.py
Lib\test\regrtest.py
Makefile.pre.in
Misc\developers.txt
Misc\RPM\python-3.0.spec
Misc\valgrind-python.supp
Modules\Setup.dist
PC\VS8.0\pyproject.vsprops
PCbuild\pyproject.vsprops
PCbuild\readme.txt
PCbuild\vs9to8.py
Tools\scripts\db2pickle.py
Tools\scripts\pickle2db.py

And some files that don't seem well maintained anyway:
PC\os2emx\README.os2emx
PC\os2vacpp\makefile
PC\os2vacpp\makefile.omk
PC\VC6\readme.txt
PC\VS7.1\python.build
PC\VS7.1\python.iss
PC\VS7.1\python20.wse
PC\VS7.1\readme.txt

[loewis]

The patch looks fine to me, please apply.

[amauryfa]

Committed patch as r66330.
Lower priority, but let the item open: more "bsddb" should be removed.

[karlcow]

On the mac version there is an issue with the python version installed
by default.

Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 13 2009, 10:26:13)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin

File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/dbhash.py",
line 5, in <module>
import bsddb
File
"/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/bsddb/init.py",
line 51, in <module>
import _bsddb
ImportError: No module named _bsddb

[loewis]

Python 2.5 is completed; no further changes will be made to it.

[ronaldoussoren]

The mac issue mentioned by "karlcow" is not relevant for this discussion
and refers to the system install of Python.

The python.org maintainers cannot influence the behaviour of that
installation, especially not w.r.t. the installation of optional extras
like bsddb.

BTW. Can this issue be closed?

BTW2. Switching "components" from Macintosh to "Installation" because
this is not related to the macos port.

[birkenfeld]

Removed the last traces of bsddb in r73208.