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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: internal format (was: Relationship between public-inbox and ssoma?)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 16:40:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180315164012.GA20246@whir> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv1sgl5php.fsf-monnier+inbox.comp.mail.public-inbox.meta@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> wrote:
> > The work-in-progress "v2" public-inbox format diverges and I
> > don't currently have plans to port ssoma to use it.  The v1
> > format will remain supported in public-inbox.
> 
> Which reminds me: do you have some document that explains the reasoning
> behind the choice of format (especially which alternatives were
> considered and dropped and why)?

v1 or v2?  Some of the reasoning for v2 was here:
  https://public-inbox.org/meta/20180209205140.GA11047@dcvr/

v1 was similar to what git did with loose objects and prevented
dupes based on Message-ID.  That worked well enough for small
non-mirror lists and wasn't designed with search (Xapian) in mind.

As for git itself: reliability, ease-of-replication, storage
efficiency.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-15 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-05  0:54 Relationship between public-inbox and ssoma? Nicolás Ojeda Bär
2018-03-05  2:07 ` Eric Wong
2018-03-05 11:45   ` Nicolás Ojeda Bär
2018-03-05 17:50     ` Eric Wong
2018-03-05 18:06       ` Nicolás Ojeda Bär
2018-03-19  7:43         ` watch performance [was: Relationship between public-inbox and ssoma?] Eric Wong
2018-03-15 15:30   ` internal format (was: Relationship between public-inbox and ssoma?) Stefan Monnier
2018-03-15 16:40     ` Eric Wong [this message]
2018-03-15 18:49       ` internal format Stefan Monnier
2018-03-15 20:14         ` Eric Wong
2018-03-15 21:05           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-15 21:21             ` Eric Wong

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