From kde-pim  Fri Jul 16 00:23:38 1999
From: Don Sanders <dsanders () cch ! com ! au>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:23:38 +0000
To: kde-pim
Subject: Re: Need for a general purpose database in KDE (maybe kab)
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Rik wrote:
> Would you agree that it would be advantageous to allow for local storage
> without a DB backend ? I think the principles seem pretty simple, considering
> what we're storing. We can make it safe by employing the same methods used
> for storing messages in a Maildir box and even index it in the same way.
Do you have time to elaborate on these methods? I'm interested in hearing more
about them. I mean under what conditions the non-Maildir approach is unsafe, how
to make it safe and about the indexing method. Perhaps a URL?

> Or ? Just require an LDAP server to be available ? OpenLDAP springs to
> mind.
> 
LDAP support and a DB backend would/will be great but I think in the here and
now we need a PIM specific interface for accessing data like MS' CDO (did anyone
look at my previous post on this? If it was unclear I'm willing to try again)
and a non-scalable but easy to implement text file based backend.

BFN,
Don.