Post #2571959

2025-08-08 07:43 UTC

@jpmens@mastodon.social @gereon@chaos.social This is because of UNIX, where everything is a file (check?: ☑️) and tools can do 1 thing and that very well (chec… eehhhh? …).

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@neuimneuland@mastodon.social 2025-08-08 07:56

@goetz@freiburg.social @jpmens@mastodon.social @gereon@chaos.social "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail" - I guess the sqlite authors decieded to support ZIP archives as an alternative.

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@giuseppe_aceto@scholar.social 2025-08-08 08:02

@goetz@freiburg.social @jpmens@mastodon.social @gereon@chaos.social I appreciate the joke, but I find it quite enlightening, because it made me realize the following. Processing a single-file encoding of a database is not technically different from processing a compressed archive: the second is just a very specific use case for the first. It's just a matter of interface. Want it to be MORE Unix? implement both sqlite3 and zip as interfaces to an underlying single-file relational database manipulation library (applies to ALL file formats).

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