Berkeley DB 4.1

[John Marino]

On 9/12/2013 13:09, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:57:06PM +0200 I heard the voice of
> Ivan Voras, and lo! it spake thus:
>>
>> And while the argument seems valid, it also doesn't have an estimate
>> of which / how many ports will break with a more recent bdb.
> 
> FWIW, I've manually pushed all the systems I've managed to higher
> versions than 4.2 for years.  I remember having 4.6 around a lot.  In
> a quick look around now, I see 4.8 on everything but one system that's
> running 4.7, servers and a couple workstations.  I can't recall _ever_
> seeing a breakage.

If it helps the discussion, dports set the db version default to 4.8
since the beginning of dports.  We found a couple of ports that
misadvertised their compatibility but for the most part, it's been
smooth for us (DragonFly).

John