From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sqlite3 Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 16:58:25 +0000 Message-ID: <8735n5r7pq.fsf@gnus.jao.io> References: <87tufmjyai.fsf@gnus.org> <875ys2lyt0.fsf@yahoo.com> <875ys1lu8w.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32197"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:xtacm9yJRYUWYhVZ8ah0z3TDkI4= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 06 18:09:23 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1muHUR-0008Fu-T8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 18:09:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40478 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1muHUQ-0006OT-B5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 12:09:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39784) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1muHTK-0005f8-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 12:08:14 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:52648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1muHTI-0000JP-Kc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 12:08:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1muHTE-0006LO-27 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Dec 2021 18:08:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Attribution: jao X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett X-URL: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:281134 Archived-At: On Mon, Dec 06 2021, Po Lu wrote: [...] > For example, we would lose the ability to inspect custom files as > plain text. In many cases, customize has written bad data to my > custom file that prevented Emacs from working, but I could always edit > the custom file manually to get things working again. > > This would not be so easy with a binary database. FWIW, this is also what was worrying me about this idea of moving customizations to a binary format, be it sqlite or any other. Sounds to me exactly like moving from text-based configurations a la Unix to the Windows Registry, a move that i for one would like to side-step if possible. Cheers, jao -- The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be. -Douglas Adams