On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:21, Havoc Pennington wrote: > I can believe something like Evolution has this situation (and would > be interested in the specific use cases just to help me think about > future work, plus how you solved it - serialize to string?), The major source of problem is the account list. Each account has a bunch of properties like hostname, email address, etc, but also some preferences (eg. "don't delete mail from the POP server"). The way we "fixed" it is that we just use a string list, and each of the items is an XML blob that we defined. It kinda sucks, but that's at least simpler to handle (and harder to break in a way that makes the data structures inconsistent) than unique IDs or other similar hacks. -- Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>
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