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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Proposal: KSharedFile
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-12-08 0:02:48
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On Friday 07 December 2001 19:52, Ingo Assenmacher wrote:
>
> But why do not use a database with transactions and
> multiuser-evironment to solve concurrency issues here. Instead of
> KsharedFile make something like KFileProxy and connect to a database.
> Concurrent access to data including integrity issues have been solved
> for many years now by database systems. So why keep up with fragile
> file-based manipulations and lock-files?

Of course putting all calendar, addressbook data etc. into a database 
would solve these kind of problems, but on the other hand it would 
create a lot of other problems, for example more difficult debugging. 
The kdepim tools are still aiming at the "normal" user, where using a 
real database as backend would really be overkill.

That said, I still think that adding an (optional) database backend to 
apps like Korganizer and Kaddressbook would be a nice thing, but not a 
number one priority.

l also don't think that file-based manipulations and lock-files are 
fragile. They work very well and provide all the functionality we need.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

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