Re: sqlite3

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:

>> My only remark is that sqlite is usually used for exactly same purpose as 
>> what
>> Emacs already has: customize. Your example:
>>
>>> (setf (persistent-data :namespace "emoji" :key "favorites") 
>>> emoji--favorites)
>>
>> looks to me like something one would use customize for.
>
> Is this historic use of customize not just a result of the lack
> something like sqlite3?

Yeah, I think so.  There's not always an obvious difference between
"configuration" and "app data", but if it's something that changes upon
every invocation (as the emojis in emoji--favorites do), it's more "app
data", and that doesn't belong in Customize.  (The user may have their
.emacs file in a VC, for instance.)

> For example, on my macOS machine I'd typically install some macOS
> specific packages, that I don't want on my GNU/Linux machines.  Another
> example is that I often install a package just to test it briefly, and I
> definitely don't want that synchronized.  It is also not ideal that a
> package is marked in `package-selected-packages', but is not even
> installed locally.

Yup.

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