[Gpe-list] Bad database design in Contacts

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Wed, 30 May 2007 15:49:13 +0200,
Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:
> Neal H. Walfield schreef:
> > At Wed, 30 May 2007 13:05:33 +0200,
> > Florent de Dinechin <Florent.de.Dinechin at ens-lyon.fr> wrote:
> >> I probably overlooked some constraints that lead to this bad design, 
> >> like computing power required or whatever. I'm sure there are solutions 
> >> that don't introduce redundancy in the tables. I'm ready to offer more 
> >> details if somebody wants them, and of course I'm ready to code for it.
> > 
> > It was issues like this that led to the near complete rewrite of
> > libeventdb.  Ideally, libcontactdb would undergo a similar rewrite. 
> 
> Woulnd't it be smarter to port it all to eds(-dbus)?

Yes, you are right.  I was assuming that the goal was to preserve the
GPE framework and thus careless in my use of ideal.  However, I agree,
that is a questionable goal given the size of the community of
developers.