Re: sqlite3

[Po Lu]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> It's the many things that fall between these two extremes that have the
> problem: Where you want to store some state, but figuring it's just too
> much work to figure out Yet Another Storage Format, but the data is too
> messy to stash in somebody's .emacs file via Customize (like lists of
> stuff).
>
> So there's a bunch of stuff that Emacs just forgets when you shut down,
> where it perhaps shouldn't.
>
> I think it'd be good to bring that into core, and then write a small
> wrapper library (well, a trivial ORM) for the rest of Emacs to use, so
> that we don't have to write SQL all over the place.  That is:
>
> (setf (persistent-data :namespace "emoji" :key "favorites") emoji--favorites)
>
> I.e., what Emacs needs is a persistent key/value store, and this would
> give us that.
>
> In addition, if somebody really wants to write SQL stuff (it can be very
> handy for some things), having sqlite3 in there gives us that in
> addition for free.
>
> This comes with questions about how the users are supposed be able to
> clear out the data, for instance, but we could have a `M-x
> list-persistent-data' where the users could blow out whatever they want
> to.

Wouldn't recfiles be better for this purpose?