From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sqlite3 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:16:56 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87tufmjyai.fsf@gnus.org> <877dcil2sj.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87czm98qi1.fsf@gnu.org> <87o85tcwm0.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <93F56F11-E66B-428F-AB08-9579ABDD9863@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3901"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.0 (2022-02-12) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: Qiantan Hong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 14 13:34:52 2022 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 1nJaZA-0000mL-2g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:34:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45078 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJaZ8-0000qI-Cy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 07:34:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45092) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJaKz-0002Lt-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 07:20:15 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:44601) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nJaKt-0001ay-Jr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 07:20:09 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.75.189.127]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000055D61.00000000620A48EC.00006EBC; Mon, 14 Feb 2022 05:19:52 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Qiantan Hong , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <93F56F11-E66B-428F-AB08-9579ABDD9863@mit.edu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham 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:286255 Archived-At: * Qiantan Hong [2021-12-06 23:37]: > > Marks, however, are > > meaningless to read and practically un-editable. Their presence in > > .newsrc.eld makes the file slow to open and scroll, and has given rise > > to a meme of "don't touch the .newsrc.eld file, you'll destroy > > everything". That in itself is a sign that we're using the wrong format > > for this data. > Is sqlite3 necessary? > Can we just print it out in a separate file as s-exp? I do not see the motion specifically useful only to store persistent data related to Emacs. Rather I see usefulness in the waste future development with databases interfaces: inventories, product lists, invoices, quotations, contact address books, tags, documents, all kinds of applications may be developed when database is easily accessible from Emacs by using Emacs Lisp. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/