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Subject: Re: SQL in the base system (Was: New FreeBSD package system
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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:16:12PM -0700, Jos Backus wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 01:34:07PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
[snip]
> > > > How about portability - can I move the file to a completely
> > > > different architecture and still get the data from it?
[snip]

The answer ("Yes") can be found in this thread:

    http://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users@sqlite.org/msg00120.html

As another data point, `yum' has been using SQLite for quite some time now.

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Jos Backus
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