database backend

[Giorgio Marzano]

I guessed something like that :)

2015-10-18 17:09 GMT+02:00 Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>:

>
> > On Oct 18, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Giorgio Marzano <marzano.giorgio at gmail.com>
> 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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