Le jeudi 16 janvier 2020 à 20:52 -0700, Jerry James a écrit :
On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 8:29 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia
<nkadel(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> The lack of a good backup tool for Berkeley DB earned me nearly a
> year
> of contracting salary from the BBC to keep alive an obsolete
> Berkeley
> DB and Apache 1.3 on RHEL systems long after httpd 2.x was
> released.
> It was discarded by Subversion with good cause.
>
> Why does XEmacs need to preserve a database?
It may not. XEmacs provides a generic "database" interface in Emacs
Lisp. The underlying database can be libdb, gdbm, ndbm, and probably
something else I've forgotten. XEmacs itself only uses that
interface to keep a Unicode code point database. That is easily
recreated.
Just port xemacs to Harfbuzz, fontconfig and the rest of the
freedesktop text stack. That will solve this issue and many others.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot