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List: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Proposal: Encouraging DB-using applications
From: "Roberto Alsina" <ralsina () kde ! org>
Date: 2003-09-21 18:52:21
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> On Sunday 21 September 2003 14:29, Tim Jansen wrote:
>> On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:08, Guillaume Laurent wrote:
>> > It scales more than enough for the amount of data a typical user will
>> > ever have to handle.
>>
>> Actually the problem with 'regular' DBs is not that they scale, but that
>> they are designed for concurrent access.
>
> Despite what you added in your following post, I agree with your point
> :-).
> This is one area where flat files won't work. However there aren't many
> desktop applications which have such a requirement.
>
> To sum up my point : a lightweight DB API would be nice to have someday,
> but
> it should be a low priority.
Hmm... how low does it have to be that it delays taking something
that's already written and less than 1200 lines of code?
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