Re: persistent storage for Emacs packages

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 23:48:42 +0100 Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> I had a similar need, and developed a system for generic persistent
>> storage from Emacs.  It lives only in my .emacs right now, but that is
>> online and freely licensed here:
>> 
>> http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/kfogel/trunk/.emacs
>> 
>> Look at the functions named `kf-persist-*' and comments therearound.
>> 
>> If it looks useful to you, I'd be fine with moving it out of my .emacs
>> and having it packaged in some more normal way.

NF> I have also written emacs-db:

NF>   https://github.com/nicferrier/emacs-db 

NF> which offers persistent hashtables basically... there is also a postgres
NF> backend using pg.el.

I like Nic's package a little better and would like to use it.  Could it
be made into a GNU ELPA package?  I would be even OK with putting it in
the Emacs core because it's such a pervasive need for so many packages
in the core and outside it.

Thanks
Ted