I guessed something like that :) 2015-10-18 17:09 GMT+02:00 Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]>:
> > > 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 > >
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