1History
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4.. _Digital Creations: http://www.digicool.com/
5.. _wxPython: http://www.wxpython.org/
6
7This module was started by Andrew Kuchling (amk) to remove the
8dependency on SWIG in a package by Gregory P. Smith who based his work
9on a similar package by Robin Dunn which wrapped Berkeley DB 2.7.x.
10
11Development then returned full circle back to Robin Dunn working in
12behalf of `Digital Creations`_ to complete the SWIG-less wrapping of the DB
133.x API and to build a solid unit test suite. Having completed that,
14Robin was now busy with another project (wxPython_) and Greg returned as
15maintainer.
16
17.. I can't use tildes because my ZOPE configuration.
18.. Something to fix in the future.
19
20`Jesus Cea Avion <https://www.jcea.es/programacion/pybsddb.htm>`__
21is the maintainer of this code since February 2008, and ported it
22to Python 3.x.
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24In 2020, after Python 2.7 sunset, this library was renamed to
25"berkeleydb" and it was made Python 3 only.
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