> On Oct 18, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Giorgio Marzano <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, > > I am not an SQL guy, but it seems to me that subsurface is the typical > application which would benefit greatly using a DBMS to store data and > relations. It would simplify a lot data handling and storage. > > Is this opportunity ever been take in account?
Yes, it gets brought up by new contributors or the occasional user maybe once a year. The simple answer is "no, that's not what we want to do". We really like text based storage that is easy to understand for a human. The XML files can get big, but on most systems that isn't an issue. The git storage is more compact but still very readable. And it has certain properties (with easy ability to have remote storage with local offline cache and great support for merging independent changes) that I have no idea how to implement with a database backend. So no, this isn't something we are looking at doing. /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
