Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:53:25AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> >Then why do the dependencies require that a mysql server be installed?
>
> As I understand it:
> Because the "embedded" MySQL server is very much still a server. You do
> *not* have to start the daemon via the init script, and it doesn't listen on
> public ports, but it needs all the server components.
So it's neither embedded, nor a server. That might make it difficult
to use a central server for many users. Anyway, I don't like it. It's
something hidden from the user instead of telling them about
it. That's never a good idea.
> >> These same issues can be hidden when using RDBMS backed, but the
> >> translations are usually much faster.
> >
> >Both of these won't be human readable, plain text files.
>
> Actually, yes. KDE Configuration files are human-readable, plain-text
> files. They aren't free-form prose. For the most part they follow the
> ".desktop" file specification put together by XDG.
If you have to make so many "translations" of a configuration file
that nowadays' computers run into performance problems when doing so,
I don't consider the file as a human readable configuration file
anymore.
> The application writers can abuse them to store binary data, but that's true
> of any plain-text format.
Yeah, that something is plain text doesn't mean that it is human
readable.
> >Try to read
> >your current kde configuration in 35 years, or try to read your data
> >from the the RDBMS you're currently using in 35 years. You'll find
> >that it won't be easy.
>
> I hope so. I plan on using different, hopefully better, software by then.
And what if you need the information stored in it?
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