[ZODB-Dev] BTree replaced by BTrees?

Steve Alexander steve@cat-box.net
Wed, 04 Dec 2002 16:25:49 +0000


Hi Ed,

> Hi I'm just familiarizing myself with v3.1 of Standalone ZODB which
> I've built and downloaded from Sourceforge. Section 2.4 of the guide
> refers  to using BTree which is not available for import in the
> version I have built. an earlier post to this list notes that the 3.1
> build tree dose not include BTree. Can assume that this is completely
> superseded by  the various BTrees variants now available

Yes.

The BTree is somewhat buggy, and no longer much maintained.

The IO,OI, II and OO BTrees are actively maintained.

There is some documentation on them too:

http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/BTrees/BTreesAPI

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Steve Alexander