Re: [Evolution] What happened to Evolution?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 09:29 -0500, Darren Govoni wrote:
> How do you mean it would 'die horribly'?

Exactly that.  If you used SQLlite as a message store you'd have serious
scaling issues.

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

Which ones?  I'm not aware of any mail server other than Archaeopteryx
that use an SQL database as a message store. [Exchange / Sharepoint use
SQL-Server and Domino used DB2 - but "sort of", they have deep hooks
into that product].  And nobody use a database like SQLlite as a message
store [I tried,  used SQLite to store many serialized objects, it works
quite badly for that purpose]

> 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.

Disagree, a developer creating tools and plugins should use the
applications API & services not sneak into its data store.

But at this point this is theoretical and off-topic.