Re: sqlite3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
> CC: "larsi@gnus.org" <larsi@gnus.org>,
>         "emacs-devel@gnu.org"
>       <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:04:35 +0000
> 
> > Assuming we decide that extending what we have is indeed necessary;
> > that is not a given.  And if we do decide, I see no catastrophe: we
> > are doing this all the time, keeping backward compatibility as we go.
> > There's no need to be afraid of that.
> Sure. I can see many cases where store.el interface is more suitable
> than multisession.el, particularly when a package need… literally a
> persistent store… that is basically a persistent hashtable, with key
> not necessarily symbols. One example is org-id. Guess I’ll try
> to put store.el on Elpa first and see if those package will use it.

Yes, letting people use it will give us more useful data to base our
decisions on.

> As for compatibly, I must be understanding something wrong.
> I thought that any interface that went into master must be kept.

That is in general true, and I'm saying that we have good experience
extending existing interfaces without breaking backward compatibility.