On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:26:08 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: > But database servers, MySQL servers > in particular, are pretty ubiquitous, and the API is easy.
No doubt, a data base can be fine and powerful. However, many tasks have to be implemented by the application. From the top of my head: searching, editing, versioning, back-up, character encoding, permissions, import/export, updates, ... Failure to do these tasks properly would cripple the user experience. A directory based approach can refer the user to the general tools of the OS. No need to spend valuable developer resources on this kind of infrastructure. ---<(kaimartin)>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user