Throwing up hands in resignation and finally deleting the metakit backend.

It's just too out-of-sync with the rest of Roundup's backends and has
fundamental compatibility issues. Also, I've never really understood
the code.

Author: Richard Jones

CHANGES.txt

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ are given with the most recent entry first.
 Feature:
 - Roundup has a new xmlrpc frontend that gives access to a tracker using
   XMLRPC.
-- Dates can now be in the year-range 1-9999 except for metakit which is
-  still limited to 1970-2038.
+- Dates can now be in the year-range 1-9999
+- The metakit backend has been removed
 - Add simple anti-spam recipe to docs
 - Allow customisation of regular expressions used in email parsing, thanks
   Bruno Damour
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ Feature:
 
 Fixed:
 - Handling of unset Link search in RDBMS backend
-- Journal import/export for metakit backend
 - Journal export of anydbm didn't correctly export previously empty values
 - Fix handling of defaults for date fields
 - Fix <form> name in user editing to allow multilink popups to work

doc/features.txt

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition.
  - requires *no* additional support software - python (2.3+) is
    enough to get you going
  - easy to set up higher-performance storage backends like sqlite_,
-   metakit_, mysql_ and postgresql_
+   mysql_ and postgresql_
 
 *simple to use*
  - accessible through the web, email, command-line or Python programs
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition.
    customisations
 
 *fast, scalable*
- - with the sqlite, metakit, mysql and postgresql backends, roundup is
+ - with the sqlite, mysql and postgresql backends, roundup is
    also fast and scalable, easily handling thousands of issues and users
    with decent response times
  - database indexes are automatically added for those backends that
-   support them (sqlite, metakit, mysql and postgresql)
+   support them (sqlite, mysql and postgresql)
  - indexed text searching giving fast responses to searches across all
    messages and indexed string properties
  - support for the Xapian full-text indexing engine for large trackers
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition.
    XMLRPC calls
 
 .. _sqlite: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/sqlite/
-.. _metakit: http://www.equi4.com/metakit/
 .. _mysql: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
 .. _postgresql: http://initd.org/software/initd/psycopg
 

doc/installation.txt

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 Installing Roundup
 ==================
 
-:Version: $Revision: 1.127 $
+:Version: $Revision: 1.128 $
 
 .. contents::
    :depth: 2
@@ -286,25 +286,21 @@ Name       Speed       Users   Support
 ========== =========== ===== ==============================
 anydbm     Slowest     Few   Always available
 sqlite     Fastest(*)  Few   May need install (PySQLite_)
-metakit    Fastest(*)  Few   Needs install (metakit_)
 postgresql Fast        Many  Needs install/admin (psycopg_)
 mysql      Fast        Many  Needs install/admin (MySQLdb_)
 ========== =========== ===== ==============================
 
 **sqlite**
-  These use the embedded database engines PySQLite_ and metakit_ to provide
-  very fast backends. They are not suitable for trackers which will have
-  many simultaneous users, but require much less installation and
-  maintenance effort than more scalable postgresql and mysql backends.
+  This uses the embedded database engine PySQLite_ to provide a very fast
+  backend. This is not suitable for trackers which will have many
+  simultaneous users, but requires much less installation and maintenance
+  effort than more scalable postgresql and mysql backends.
 
   SQLite is supported via PySQLite versions 1.1.7, 2.1.0 and sqlite3 (the last
   being bundled with Python 2.5+)
 
   Installed SQLite should be the latest version available (3.3.8 is known
   to work, 3.1.3 is known to have problems).
-**metakit**
-  Similar performance to sqlite. If you are choosing between these two,
-  please select sqlite.
 **postgresql**
   Backend for popular RDBMS PostgreSQL. You must read doc/postgresql.txt for
   additional installation steps and requirements. You must also configure
@@ -1037,7 +1033,6 @@ Next: `User Guide`_
 .. _External hyperlink targets:
 
 .. _apache: http://httpd.apache.org/
-.. _metakit: http://www.equi4.com/metakit/
 .. _mod_python: http://www.modpython.org/
 .. _MySQLdb: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
 .. _Psycopg: http://initd.org/software/initd/psycopg