[IAEP] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 15:56, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
>> === Journal ===
>> Tomeu Vizoso has been doing a wonderful work of bringing the journal
>> implementation closer to it's design.The Object chooser can now be
>> filtered by data type.
>
> Cool, between this and the note mentioning "the old datastore will be
> updated to the new format" I wonder if the datastore storage - on disk
> - has changed significantly.
>
> I am thinking of ds-backup interoperation. Right now ds-backup uses
> the json-formatted metadata files, as well as the proper stored files.
> Any changes in those need a matching change on ds-backup code,
> probably just on the server-side code.

Yeah, I recommend rsync'ing the ~/.sugar/default/datastore dir, maybe
skipping the index subdir. You have the layout explained here:

http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/DatastoreRewrite

Regards,

Tomeu