[Adium-devl] More Logging Decisions

[David Smith]

	Hey folks,

	We've got a bit of an interesting dilemma here. We started the  
##instantmessaging channel on freenode to discuss a cross platform  
cross client log format with the developers of kopete, gaim,  
telepathy, and a few others. We got a lot more details pinned down  
about the XML logging format, which was all fine and dandy until  
Xenon of colloquy fame showed up and said (loosely paraphrased):

"XML? I'm switching away from xml. It's too slow for IRC. 6 days ago  
I committed a new in-progress SQLite based logger to Colloquy; btw,  
the adium sqlite logger was way slower than it needed to be because  
it didn't set fullfsync to 0"

Cue forehead slapping from Chris, Colin, and myself. So now we're  
left with the following situation:

XML:
	pros: close to done, semi-human readable, liked by several other  
clients
	cons: apparently rather slower than properly done sqlite, which is  
claimed to be a major problem for irc/jabber confs

SQLite:
	pros: probably just a matter of revamping Sam's sqlite logger based  
on Xenon's schema, and setting fullfync to 0, supposedly faster
	cons: no idea if the other clients like it (We could do export/ 
import to xml though, so this may not be a huge issue), not as human  
readable

Both can handle spotlight, and Colin says he's worked out how to do  
phrase searching for sqlite if we use it. Currently, Colin plans to  
finish up the XML logger, and we can ship that for 1.0. The  
limitations of it won't become apparent (if they become apparent)  
until we have really solid group chat.

													David