From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: rgh@roughage.com.au (Richard Heycock)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:45:06 +1000
Subject: [sup-talk] rethinking sup part ii
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Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Mon Jul 21 07:33:24 +1000 2008:
> In which the new version of Sup is described!
> 
> http://all-thing.net/2008/07/rethinking-sup-part-ii.html

I really like the idea and I have to say that I'm *very* glad that you
are keeping the ncurses interface.

My one concern is that you are thinking of using Sphinx and as a
consequence you are relient on a relational database. Is that really
what you want for a mail client? I find this disturbing on two levels:
having a full blown database system for email seems like overkill and
the idea of an index bring based on a relational model quite appaling.

There are a number of other indexs such as Xapian or Hyper Estraier
both have ruby bindings and both are quite mature and widely used in
other projects.

Just my two cents.

rgh

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