Re: sqlite3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
> CC: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
>         "larsi@gnus.org"
>       <larsi@gnus.org>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 11:15:28 +0000
> 
> > But the objections explicitly sounded like they were against having
> > the DB access capabilities within Emacs.  At least one participant
> > explicitly said so.  Which is what I criticized from my POV as one of
> > the Emacs maintainers -- resisting to addition of a useful capability
> > doesn't make sense.
> I was and am opposing “using” databases. Maybe the expression is
> awfully ambiguous, I apologize — I might not have known what I really mean
> before others point out there’re two completely separate issues here.
> ofc I don’t oppose adding SQLite3 support for a SQLite3 browsing/editing
> package, what I’m resisting is the use of SQLite3 in Emacs Lisp applications
> whose application domain has nothing to do with SQLite3 and deserve
> pure lisp implementation.

A blanket opposition like that, which is not specific to a certain use
or a class of uses of the capability, makes no sense at all.  You are
in effect saying that there are no applications in the world that
should use a DB except those that browse DBs created by others.  IOW,
in an ideal world, you'd deny the very need for having persistent DBs
for _any_ application.  Please rethink such a general attitude.