From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: terence.namusonge@gmail.com (teroz) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:27:46 +0200 Subject: [sup-talk] rethinking sup part ii In-Reply-To: <1216803452-sup-8333@port-ext16.ensta.fr> References: <1216589569-sup-1520@entry> <1216802131-sup-4710@wrasse> <1216803452-sup-8333@port-ext16.ensta.fr> Message-ID: <1f7abd640807230227v75c28a62v6c299242a9bf3303@mail.gmail.com> Well surely if we r eschewing typical mail storage formats like mbox and IMAP then a database is the way to go unless your suggesting we write some form of storage library as well. On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Nicolas Pouillard < nicolas.pouillard at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > sup-talk mailing list > sup-talk at rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk > > -- --Teroz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: