On Oct 29, 2003, at 9:21 PM, J C Lawrence wrote:
This is not a trivial space, but its also not an unknown space. File
versioning systems have been messing here for years with change keys and
and signatures. Ultimately it comes down to a shared transaction key.
The old AT&T SCCS papers are a particularly good read in this regard.
How does this statement reconcile with Barry's not wanting to require MySQL or PostgreSQL for Mailman because he doesn't want to layer on too many dependencies to get Mailman running? We seem to be heading off into places where the answer is "if we're lucky, it'll run on that cluster of G5's at Uvirginia -- slowly".
Unless Barry wants to throw his simplicity requirements out the window, we can't expect high performance filesystems, SANs, fiber optic RAID connects, or for that matter, linux over windows over sgi over solaris 2.5. This stuff that's floating around is great, if we were writing an enterprise-class, mega-bugger IS-supported system for a corporate data center.
How's taht all relate to Mailman, anyway? Maybe we should refocus and not wander down interesting but entirely philosophical ratholes?
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