I feel very badly about doing that, as we suddenly demand installation of a DB to run James.
I believe this is a major drawback for the installed userbase, much greater than a change from Java-1.3 to Java-1.4. I must admit that I have not followed the IMAP discussions closely, could you perhaps sum up, what the problem with the filebased repositories are in regard to IMAP? --Søren On Wednesday 22 December 2004 11:34, Jason Webb wrote: > I've only played with Cloudscape before (Derby's forerunner if you don't > know, I'm sure Danny does!). How would people feel about dropping file: > support altogether and only using db: repositories then? > However this would mean that dbfile: wouldn't work. I don't want to kill a > feature "accidentally" that a lot of people rely on. > > Any thoughts? > > -- Jason > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Danny Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 22 December 2004 10:20 > > To: James Developers List > > Subject: Re: Repositories > > > > I've been messing with Derby recently and wondered if we shouldn't > > just bundle derby for people who don't care what happens..? > > > > Otherwise I think we will need to deprecate the cornerstone ones in > > favour of something better for our sanity if nothing else. These have > > had "issues" for as long as I've been involved and I'd cheer, loudly, > > if we saw the back of them. I believe that the NNTP server uses a much > > simpler format for its file repo's, mabey you could re-use something > > from that? > > > > d. > > > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:55:15 -0000, Jason Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry to all those waiting for the IMAP work to be committed, but what > > > > with > > > > > changing jobs and looking after 2 small people my time has become a > > > > little > > > > > tight... > > > > > > However, this has not stopped me thinking about the biggest issue the > > > > IMAP > > > > > server faces and that is the repository interface. At the moment I feel > > > > I'm > > > > > trying to ram a very square peg into a very round hole and it's fairly > > > painful. > > > > > > The database repositories are simple to deal with as we (James) own the > > > code. My main issue is with the Cornerstone file: repositories as they > > > > are > > > > > "owned" by the Avalon project. I would like to make changes to these, > > > > but I > > > > > need to know if we are still going to be going forward with > > > Cornerstone/Avalon or whatever. > > > > > > -- Jason > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Søren Hilmer, M.Sc. R&D manager Phone: +45 72 30 64 00 TietoEnator IT+ A/S Fax: +45 72 30 64 02 Ved Lunden 12 Direct: +45 72 30 64 57 DK-8230 Åbyhøj Email: soren.hilmer <at> tietoenator.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
