On Fri, 2025-10-10 at 14:05 +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
> 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 ;)
I still do not 100% buy it. a libsqlite is what 1MB?
Looking at the dependencies if GNUnet I wonder if that is relevant in
any capacity, GNUnet is not on the light side itself I think.
libgnunetutil is about the same size as libsqlite, for example.
That being said I am not opposed to having the plugin per se, I am just
not willing to code and maintain it.
If you are, then feel free to add it and I can also merge the patch.
Best
Martin
>
> >
> > 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',
