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  • From: Jens Laas <jens.laas AT data.slu.se>
  • To: Aaron Brice <abrice2 AT cox.net>
  • Cc: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery]Language wars...
  • Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 08:53:30 +0200 (CEST)

(02.10.07 kl.19:52) Aaron Brice skrev följande till Sergey A Lipnevich:

> On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 08:59, Sergey A Lipnevich wrote:
> > One of the things neglected about Sorcery is that it relies on the file
> > system as its primary storage, a kind of database. Spell name's primary

> Using the file system as a kind of database in my opinion is one of
> sorcery's weaknesses right now. Why not use a database as a kind of
> database? How much faster would finding dependencies be if you could
> just "select from dependency_table where depends_on='mozilla'"? I think
> it would be great to not only switch to Perl, but to switch to Perl,
> MySQL, and XML.

That would be the same day I stopped using SMGL.

If sourcemage started using a relational database it would become just
another bloated, overengineered piece of crap.

If OpenSSL stopped needing perl for building I would be happy, as ssh is
the only thing keeping perl on my servers.

What attracts me to sourcemage is:
- Simplicity (I can easily change things to my way without reading tons of
scripts, code, programs in a language I dont use, etc.)
- Low demands. I can have a very small base system. Only crap left is
perl.
- And of course all the source dist advantages we all love.

Dont stray from the path of simplicity! There be dragons!

Cheers!
Jens

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