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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] configuration in akonadi-next
From:       laurent Montel <montel () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-12-19 8:59:43
Message-ID: 157666733.jUABq732KG () linux-19td
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Le Thursday 18 December 2014 22:58:43 Sandro Knau=DF a =E9crit :
> Hey,
> =

> > > "Text" files are binary files with nice editors, that's all. (... just
> > > look
> > > at one with a hexeditor ;)
> > =

> > Haha. Very funny. No, not funny at all.
> > =

> > > Access, not format, is what matters.
> > =

> > Exactly. And that's why access with everybody's favorite console text
> > editor is important. Or even with sed, awk, grep, and friends.
> =

> +1. I love every file i can simply look into and do not have to use speci=
al
> tool to look at it. Also for bugreporters this matters: you can easily dr=
op
> the content of a textfile and actually are sure that no passwords are
> transmited. Using a db you have to access the database, create a dbdump to
> have a readable thing.


+1 =

Bug reported is indeed the good reason to have settings stored as plain tex=
t.

And indeed use a specific tools for it is totally evil.

Regards.

> But configuration should not be that heavy that any binary thing is needed
> to be fast. And the configuration is read at one time maybe triggered, wh=
en
> it was changed. So there is neither a timing issue nor a big chunck of
> data...
> =

> Regads,
> =

> sandro
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