@dalias @rdonoghue #RecUtils <3, but also for forums I'd honestly consider just a non-federating instance of #INN (#NNTP) with a web client.

#PHPBB still works... but then the NNTP interface would need to be tacked back on.

#WebUI

What should I use for #HumanReadable #Configuration files?

INI kinda sucks for a number of reasons, #JSON works but it's JSON, its derivatives are much the same but harder to parse...

Would that be a reasonably good match for #RecUtils?

#XML sucks as a user-facing anything.

I though of s-exps but the reality of intern bombing & arbitrary execution in the Lisp reader make me rather reluctant to keep using that now.

Any #emacs users use #recutils at all with #OrgMode ?

I like the idea of using shell, pipes and commands to manipulate databases and to extract and format data.

That's also possible with e.g. #SQLite or #jq, but with #recutils the storage format is more human-readable and might be more suitable for certain projects.

Anybody here using GNU #Recutils?

https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/

"GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, plain text databases called recfiles.

The data is stored as a sequence of records, each record containing an arbitrary number of named fields.

The picture below shows a sample database containing information about GNU packages, along with the main features provided by Recutils."

@dozens libera #recutils channel for more awesome, and read the info page over the man page for all the real power stuff

@easrng@uwu.social another option that is in a way even lighter then sqlite is #recutils

El amigo Naikodemus en Twitter, ha colgado esta maravilla: "Bueno, ya está. Diccionario #tokipona-ES en formato #recutils y #csv: https://gitlab.com/naikodemus/conlangs-varios/-/tree/master/Toki%20Pona ; para quien quiera."

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Small Technology Notes https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/05/recutils.html #techtips #recutils #linux #sqlite #export