[IAEP] Unified Objects (was Unified bundles)

[C. Scott Ananian]

Quick comment: you should probably be thinking about running
activities *in place from their ZIP file* rather than storing the
"unpacked" form in the Journal.  This will lead to a much simpler
implementation in the short term, since activities still have a single
identity.

There are a number of desktop search projects which are growing
notions of "nested identity" such that there's an activity bundle (zip
file, tar ball, open office document, directory, etc) which has other
documents "inside" it -- but support for this is still very immature.
It's easier to treat bundles as single blobs: python is perfectly
happy to run code from inside a ZIP file, and if you want to use
something other than python then there are several FUSE modules that
will let you temporarily mount your ZIP file on a directory mount
point.
 --scott

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