Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[Darren Govoni <darren ontrenet com>]

How do you mean it would 'die horribly'?

After all, email servers store their messages in databases so they don't get corrupted.

Also, point #4 isn't bogus. Its intended to attract developers to write more tools and plugins against the data format.
Not really for users to hack their messages.

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 09:23 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 09:18 -0500, Darren Govoni wrote:
> > I would design Evolution to use SQLlite 
>
> It *does*!
>
> But it doesn't put the *messages* in SQLite; that would die horribly.
>
> > or something like it. Firefox is going that direction in itself.
> > It would buy you these lacking qualities now:
> > 1) Data integrity
> > 2) Fast retrieval, sorting
> > 3) Ad hoc querying
> > 4) Open format (can use any/many tools to manipulate)
>
> Point#4 is, IMO, rather bogus.  The "format" may technically be Open but
> if you don't intimately understand the schema / data-model it (a) may
> not really be helpful to have "access" and (b) provide a nice avenue for
> users to trash their data and then blame the application [loudly, and in
> public, of course - with no mention of their thrashing about in the
> applications internals].
>
> > On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 09:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: 
> > > On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 08:30 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > > An application's data should be a sealed container and accessed only
> > > > via an API / service 
> > > Fine in theory as long as the API/service is foolproof. Getting at an
> > > mbox file with a text editor has saved my skin more than once (though I
> > > agree that it's a terrible format for mail).
>
>
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