simplicity vs safety with complexity

[Matthias Andree]

Andras Salamon <andras at dns.net> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:49:00PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
>> 1) a wordlist that's simple, easy to backup, but vulnerable to software
>> and hardware crashes; or
>> 
>> 2) a wordlist that offers crash protection but is complex to maintain,
>> backup, ... 
>
> Definitely 1.  It's the reason I still have not upgraded from 0.92.8
> (and have no current plans to, even with all the fixes in 0.93).

0.93.X with --disable-transactions will use the same database
implementation as you're used to from 0.92.8.

> And even with all this extra complexity, these still don't seem to
> help with merging different users' changes into a central database.
> Please correct me if I am wrong!

That was not the goal of these changes. They have been meant to achieve
crash proofing.

> The main feature I would love to see would be a way of allowing multiple
> users to create deltas to be merged together into a central database.
> I don't really care about duplicates being included multiple times,
> which would mean a delta with just tokens and +/- counts.  Perhaps this
> is a post-1.0 issue.

OK. I've stuffed this into our TODO file.

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Matthias Andree