[Psi-devel] comment from a user

[Brian]

Whoops, sorry for the misattribution -- that was Trejkaz, not Hal,  
speaking up for plaintext convenience. :-o

  - Brian

On Feb 28, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Brian fxsasjse902-at-sneakemail.com |psi/ 
personal| wrote:

> On Feb 27, 2007, at 2:40 AM, Trejkaz trejkaz-at-trypticon.org |psi/
> personal| wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 12:25, Hal Rottenberg wrote:
>>> I've been saying we needed a db back end since 2004 or so.  :D
>>
>> Just using a raw DB is nasty for people who want to manipulate the
>> files
>> though. :-)
>>
>
> Kinda throws a wrench in systemwide index/search strategies like
> Spotlight on MacOS, too (unless you provide a spotlight mdimporter
> plugin thingy for it as well). :(
>
> Personally, for chat storage I most like the strategy Apple took with
> iChat -- each conversation is a separate file, much like the maildir
> (Qmail) way of mail spooling. Spotlight finds what you're looking
> for, selecting one of the messages opens it through iChat. And like
> Hal said, you can always use grep and friends on the individual files
> for just about any custom task you might dream up.
>
> I'd definitely hope that if any db storage functionality is added,
> it's in addition to, not in place of, the plaintext version. Or,
> heck, make it a configuration option? Pick which way you want it?
> Even if the default is db, as long as I could switch it off and stick
> with plain-text files, I'd be just fine. :)
>
> Thanks,
>
>   - Brian
>
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