Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:16 AM -0300 Friedrich Locke friedrich.locke@gmail.com wrote:
Hi folks!
I wonder if, with the increased interest on mdb, the support for bdb will be removed in a near future.
Thanks a lot.
See the slides from LDAPCon 2013. http://lanyrd.com/2013/ldapcon/sckyhk/
Since Oracle has changed the license of BDB 6 to AGPLv3, most network services that used BDB will be required to migrate away from it. (This also affects Cyrus SASL and Heimdal Kerberos, but we already wrote LMDB drivers for them 3 years ago.) And since BDB is now technologically obsolete anyway, there's no reason to continue to support it.
Hi Friedrich,
bdb and hdb will still exist, but be disabled by default in configure, with OpenLDAP 2.5. Removal would be slated for OpenLDAP 2.6.