[tor-bugs] #10815 [EFF-HTTPS Everywhere]: 4.dev.15 ruleset db is not a proper db?

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#10815: 4.dev.15 ruleset db is not a proper db?
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     Reporter:  Faziri                |      Owner:  pde
         Type:  enhancement           |     Status:  needs_information
     Priority:  normal                |  Milestone:
    Component:  EFF-HTTPS Everywhere  |    Version:
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Comment (by jsha):

 You make a good point, Faziri: It would be cleaner to fully transform the
 XML into a database schema. The main reason I didn't do that initially was
 that it was the minimal change necessary to speed up DB loading to the
 point where we could unblock the 4.0 beta Firefox release.

 Additionally, someone later pointed out that some users take advantage of
 the 'custom ruleset' feature, where they can author their own rulesets and
 put them in their profile directory. Since the format of these custom
 rulesets is also XML, we'd have to continue to maintain an XML-ingesting
 code path in addition to a newer, more SQL-native DB-ingesting code path,
 which seems like a recipe for bugs.

 Besides conceptual cleanliness, what do you see as the advantages of
 transforming the XML schema more fully into a DB schema?

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