On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 09:09:22AM +0200, Martin Schanzenbach wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this was done on purpose because we want to deprecate/remove the flat
> file/heap DB implementations as they are slow and buggy and hard to
> maintain because not really used. I guess I forgot to delete the source
> file.
> Also, sqlite is pretty close already to a flat file implementation but
> a lot faster than anything we will come up with.
> What is the requirement to keep it from you?
Simply to not require libsqlite on very small hardware which anyway
got only very very little persistent storage usable by GNUnet.
I used it for my "GNUnet for IoT" project, ie. using GNUnet as a P2P
way to allow (remote and local) access to typical IoT devices without
requiring any vendor-operated cloud nonsense, nor needing dyndns or
other privacy nightmares, neither needing complex gateway hardware
providing some kind of VPN into the local network.
So imho it *is* useful somehow, and also having a plain file
peerstore backend would be amazing ;)
>
> BR
> Martin
>
> On Fri, 2025-10-10 at 02:14 +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> > Build flat namecache plugin which was dropped with the transition to
> > meson, leaving behind the sourcecode without a way to build it.
> > ---
> > src/plugin/namecache/meson.build | 10 ++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/plugin/namecache/meson.build
> > b/src/plugin/namecache/meson.build
> > index f1600fcc6..3dee0c761 100644
> > --- a/src/plugin/namecache/meson.build
> > +++ b/src/plugin/namecache/meson.build
> > @@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ shared_module(
> > install_dir: get_option('libdir') / 'gnunet',
> > )
> >
> > +shared_module(
> > + 'gnunet_plugin_namecache_flat',
> > + ['plugin_namecache_flat.c'],
> > + install_rpath: rpath_option,
> > + dependencies: [libgnunetutil_dep, libgnunetgnsrecord_dep],
> > + include_directories: [incdir, configuration_inc],
> > + install: true,
> > + install_dir: get_option('libdir') / 'gnunet',
> > +)
> > +
> > if pq_dep.found()
> > shared_module(
> > 'gnunet_plugin_namecache_postgres',
