Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Jan 3, 2010, at 9:25 PM, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > > > I hope that it would be possible to make the storage container backend > > Storage Technology independent so that people like me who will detest SQL > > until the heat death of the universe can use something else to store mail > > messages. I would also recommend not depending on the file system because > > in my experience, performance declined dramatically around 500 messages > > (ext3 adn jfs). Even though I was using an SQL database (SQLite), it was > > significantly faster using the database. > > The standard library should probably have an API and one or two reference > implementations. I think you can a file-system based implementation > moderately non-horrible. :) > > -Barry
Considering all the IMAP implementations using file system containers, I think you're right :-). Bill _______________________________________________ Email-SIG mailing list Email-SIG@python.org Your options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/email-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
