From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com (Nicolas Pouillard) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:58:10 +0200 Subject: [sup-talk] rethinking sup part ii In-Reply-To: <1216802131-sup-4710@wrasse> References: <1216589569-sup-1520@entry> <1216802131-sup-4710@wrasse> Message-ID: <1216803452-sup-8333@port-ext16.ensta.fr> 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 194 bytes Desc: not available URL: