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From: nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com (Nicolas Pouillard)
Subject: [sup-talk] rethinking sup part ii
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:58:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216803452-sup-8333@port-ext16.ensta.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1216802131-sup-4710@wrasse>

Excerpts from Richard Heycock's message of Wed Jul 23 10:45:06 +0200 2008:
> 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.

I'm also concerned by using relying on relational databases for a mail
service.

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-23  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-20 21:33 William Morgan
2008-07-20 23:28 ` Guillaume Quintard
2008-07-21  0:04   ` William Morgan
2008-07-21  5:43     ` Guillaume Quintard
2008-07-21 12:14 ` Peter Krenn
2008-07-21 15:22   ` William Morgan
2008-07-21 15:26     ` Stephen Patterson
2008-07-21 16:04       ` John Bent
2008-07-22  2:12       ` William Morgan
2008-07-23 17:40         ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-07-23 22:26           ` William Morgan
2008-07-24  9:16             ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-07-21 18:43 ` Lionel Ott
2008-07-23  8:45 ` Richard Heycock
2008-07-23  8:58   ` Nicolas Pouillard [this message]
2008-07-23  9:27     ` teroz
2008-07-23 21:41       ` Richard Heycock
2008-07-23 17:09   ` William Morgan
2008-07-25 12:11     ` Marcus Williams
2008-07-24  4:55 ` Guarded Identity
2008-07-24  9:21   ` Nicolas Pouillard
2008-07-25 16:00     ` William Morgan
2008-07-26  7:32       ` Guarded Identity
2008-07-25  7:18   ` William Morgan

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