On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 19:30 +0200, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > Hi Travis, thanks a lot for responding!! > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 17:39, Travis Reitter > <[email protected]> wrote:
> EDS again? I thought we could finally move away from that.. > I went as far as considering .vcf with perhaps an extra .meta file per > individual for metadata that won't be appropriate in a vcard file. Really, EDS isn't ideal, but it's gotten a lot better in the last year or two, and the people working on it now seem to have a good idea of what needs to be done to improve it. > You might want to help out on that if you'd like > to do contact management (since we'll need a writable back-end > to be > able to save changes to contacts, etc.). > > > There's nothing really fastpath in syncing metacontacts to a table > AIUI, so a text file per individual should suffice in my > understanding. > What's the issue with using plain files from your point of view (if > there is any)? You could do that, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's a lot slower than e-d-s. Eg, if you've got 300 contacts, and you want to search, you'll have to open 300 files, read them, marshal them into your in-memory structure, then start the actual search. I think a database really makes sense in the context of contacts. They're really optimized for retrieving and slicing data, which address books spend a lot of their time doing. -Travis _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
