Developers of Sympa

[John Douglass <address@concealed>]

Sergiy Zhuk wrote:

> What do you think about storing configs in the database ?
> We could keep a plain text copy in the list's directory, but would update it
> only once in a while and also keep backup configs there.
> I think there's virtually no need to edit configs manually, since one can
> either use email or web interface to do it.
>  
I actually like this idea! I was trying to think about how I would do 
parallel web interfaces (to handle potential load issues) and if Sympa 
was possible to span multiple machines. (Think multi-frontends and 
single backend without having to NFS mount). Having the configs in the 
database would lend itself to moving Sympa torward that model I think.

Perhaps also a config (sympa.conf) option to keep only X number of 
backup configs as well. No point in creating clutter and the backups 
might can be stored in the DB...

The only real other stopping point on that issue is the web archives 
provided my MHonarc.

What was the technical reasoning behind keeping the configs in text 
files rather than a DB?

- J