alt Hacker News> KeePass has long been the gold standard and darling of the tech world, earned through its unrelenting commitment to security, stability, and data sovereignty.
Eh? I always thought of pass[1] in that role.
> Devising a new schema based on SQLite would allow for current features that are being jerry-rigged into the attributes to have their own real place in the database, rather than clogging the user-facing fields. It also ensures that if in the future, some weird authentication method were to come out, no breaking changes would be needed. You simply would add a table to accommodate it, and old clients would simply not support the feature and just load the database without it. Of course, a warning would be shown to the user if somehow their database uses new features on an old client.
Using a relational database does not solve this problem at all. It doesn’t even address it at all.
The original problem is you have multiple implementations defining their own data model. Whether the backend is a file, a database, or a post-it note, that doesn’t work.
Just as you can ignore tables in a database, you can ignore attributes in XML.