From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: persistent storage for Emacs packages Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:13:02 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87ppptbunl.fsf@flea.lifelogs.com> References: <87d2n2w647.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <87r4bikxf9.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385050512 8220 80.91.229.3 (21 Nov 2013 16:15:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:15:12 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 21 17:15:19 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VjWuU-0008MF-Sj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:15:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33994 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjWuU-0004Ku-8D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:15:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55191) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjWuM-0004HJ-7N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:15:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjWuH-00038T-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:15:10 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58656) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjWuH-00036q-4J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:15:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VjWuF-0008ES-Sp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:15:03 +0100 Original-Received: from c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([98.229.61.72]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:15:03 +0100 Original-Received: from tzz by c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:15:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-229-61-72.hsd1.ma.comcast.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:t0aPINSHohhk9+j7xLhtHaZWYkE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165490 Archived-At: On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:48:42 +0100 Nic Ferrier wrote: >> I had a similar need, and developed a system for generic persistent >> storage from Emacs. It lives only in my .emacs right now, but that is >> online and freely licensed here: >> >> http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/kfogel/trunk/.emacs >> >> Look at the functions named `kf-persist-*' and comments therearound. >> >> If it looks useful to you, I'd be fine with moving it out of my .emacs >> and having it packaged in some more normal way. NF> I have also written emacs-db: NF> https://github.com/nicferrier/emacs-db NF> which offers persistent hashtables basically... there is also a postgres NF> backend using pg.el. I like Nic's package a little better and would like to use it. Could it be made into a GNU ELPA package? I would be even OK with putting it in the Emacs core because it's such a pervasive need for so many packages in the core and outside it. Thanks Ted