From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: SQLite interface Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:31:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87pplp263o.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> References: <87zjku76nk.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <87y50e6mck.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394742691 4376 80.91.229.3 (13 Mar 2014 20:31:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 20:31:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 21:31:40 2014 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 1WOCHz-00017s-SO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:31:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41491 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOCHz-0002lI-Ff for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:31:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46712) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOCHr-0002b9-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:31:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOCHl-0004Wc-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: from ka.mail.enyo.de ([87.106.162.201]:59566) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WOCHl-0004W7-GJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:31:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [172.17.135.4] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by ka.mail.enyo.de with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) id 1WOCHk-0000Ma-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:31:24 +0100 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WOCHj-00065o-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2014 21:31:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87y50e6mck.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:26:51 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 87.106.162.201 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:170326 Archived-At: * Ted Zlatanov: > Given that any possible FFI interface is after the freeze and probably > will take months to get into a released Emacs, can you consider writing > this with a shell backend for now and use the C API opportunistically? What does this mean? Do you want me to write a stub for the SQLite API that runs as a subprocess and exposes that over some sort of RPC interface? > I don't know the details about SQLite's accessibility, but I believe it > can do at least some useful things non-interactively over STDOUT/STDIN. Oh, you want me to use the existing sqlite3 command line client? That's a non-starter. It is not binary-transparent, and it does not separated support query parameters. My planned use case (Gnus) handles untrusted data received over the network, so this approach does not seem such a good idea to me.