Subj : File listings
To   : Tegularius
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Oct 06 2005 10:22 pm

  Re: File listings
  By: Tegularius to Digital Man on Thu Oct 06 2005 01:43 am

 >   Re: File listings
 >   By: Digital Man to Tegularius on Tue Oct 04 2005 23:32:00
 > 
 > 
 >  > In Synchronet v4, the file listings will be completely
 >  > customizable/configurable and short filenames will not be displayed at al
 >  > (normally).
 > 
 > That's great to look forward to.
 > 
 > BTW, I wonder whether you're familiar with Berkeley DB, an open source datab
 > e engine.  I've been playing with it in Linux, but it is available for
 > Windows as well. It can store and index just about any kind of data any way
 > you want.  Perhaps if you drew upon it for Synchronet, it would relieve you
 > of a lot of bother in coding for storage and retrieval of user base, file
 > base, maybe even message base data.  Sysops could probably even use it to pu
 > their own databases of various types online for the use of callers.  It's no
 > a stand-alone DBMS by any means; it needs C or other programming around it,
 > but that makes it very versatile.  Just a thought for the future...

Yes, we've looked at it. I think the SMB format will work very well for the
file bases in v4 and we have other plain-text data formats planned for use in
v4. I don't think we need a general purpose database for any of the Synchronet
data, but supporting 3rd party databases for application storage is something
we're considering for future versions.

                                                  digital man

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