Re: sqlite3

[Jose A. Ortega Ruiz]

On Mon, Dec 06 2021, Po Lu wrote:

[...]

> For example, we would lose the ability to inspect custom files as
> plain text.  In many cases, customize has written bad data to my
> custom file that prevented Emacs from working, but I could always edit
> the custom file manually to get things working again.
>
> This would not be so easy with a binary database.

FWIW, this is also what was worrying me about this idea of moving
customizations to a binary format, be it sqlite or any other.  Sounds to
me exactly like moving from text-based configurations a la Unix to the
Windows Registry, a move that i for one would like to side-step if
possible.

Cheers,
jao
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