Re: dbus and GNOME 2.8

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 22:17 +0100, jamie wrote:
> I think You missed the plot. No one's talking about replacing the
> filesystem with an RDBMS or anything crazy like that. The RDBMS is
> simply for storing and retrieving meta data.I was suggesting
> standardising the use of that RDBMS for other related stuff.
> 
> Currently we are using a flat file XML database for GConf whilst some
> services like Evolution Data server achieve the same effect of an RDBMS
> by presenting its data via Corba. Package managers use their own file
> based databases and now egg-recent wants to use corba or Dbus for simply
> transfering data in a client/server fashion. Its clear from these
> services that we need to have client/server support on the desktop and
> an RDBMS is the best and quickest way to achieve that.
>
its clear we need a RDBMS for egg-recent? That seems overkill to me.
egg-recent, AFAIK, is just a list of files.

cheers