RE: User Data directory hashing

[Paul J. T. <cap...@sq...>]

<quote who="Philippe Mingo">
> Steve Falla dijo:
>> Paul, do you want to think about prefs as a pluggable
>> module for SM2?
>
> As far as I know this will go into a service/module,
> which is something very near to a plugin but translated
> to ZK architecture.

Philippe is correct, here. As a part of Zookeeper (and thus SM 2), we
will be designing a Preferences Service that will have various
backend modules built for it. Among these will first and foremost be
versions to store preferences in a database and in flat files, as we
currently do. Other options could be XML files, or whatever else
someone dreams up.

Of course, this is all Zookeeper design stuff, but...just for those
who may not have heard already, Zookeeper will do prefs in the
following manner.

There will be a frontend (Service) API that Squirrelmail will hook
into to do all it's preferences work. It will contain all the
functions like getPref and savePref (or whatever they get named).

Then there will be a backend (Module) API that must be implemented by
backend modules to store/access the data in various locations.

Now, if we can just get Squirrelmail 1.2 out the door, such things
will become our main focus here. Won't THAT be fun... :)

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