Re: dbus and GNOME 2.8

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

GNOME Storage.

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 08:53 +0900, Jan Morén wrote:
> I get the feeling this whole discussion is bass-ackwards. It should be
> about what functionality we need, and drag in something like SQLite a
> full RDBMS into the discussion only if the use-cases very clearly
> indicate that the necessary functionality outweighs the large cost in
> complexity, resource use and developer animosity. And as for something
> like stored procedures and enforcing "business rules", the discussion
> should be about how to avoid it, and how to insulate the developer from
> even having to know about them at all costs. 
> 
> Instead we have a discussion about how to motivate shoehorning in a DBMS
> into the desktop without even discussing _why_, and with some utterly
> gratuitous DB feature comparison subthread thrown in on the side for
> good measure - it's like the assumption is that having a DBMS is by
> default a good thing, rather than the utter pain in the [insert
> favourite body part] that it is in the reality, for developers and
> deployers alike.
> 
> So, assuming that keeping complexity and resource cost down is a good
> thing, is there in fact a pressing need for a DBMS in Gnome?
> 
> 
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