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barrucadu / yukibot

An IRC bot, and associated libraries, for the ##compsoc-uk-anime channel on Freenode
MIT License
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State #38

Closed barrucadu closed 8 years ago

barrucadu commented 8 years ago

While configuration should be read-only, there is a use for read-write state. Currently mongodb is used, which is very convenient as it doesn't require a schema. Only the other hand, the actual data format used in a few places is pretty rigid: tagged and timestamped strings. Furthermore, mongodb requires a separate database server.

It would be nice to not need a separate database server and, given the in-practice rigidity of the schema, perhaps something like sqlite would be good enough.

barrucadu commented 8 years ago

On the other hand, something with a fixed schema makes it hard for plugins to define their own state types without also maintaining their own databases (not desirable).