Re: sqlite3

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

>> 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.
>
> What would the use-case for this be? And would this be part of the
> same interface ("persistent-data"), or would they be separate?  I
> think the latter would be preferable, because then systems that might
> not have SQLite installed -- for whatever reason, despite it's wide
> availability -- could fall back on a Elisp implementation.

I'm not quite sure what you're asking here?  The use case for having
persistent data or for writing SQL?

Nobody that uses the persistent data interface would have to write SQL.

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