[Sugar-devel] On datastore object IDs

[Eben Eliason]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Benjamin M.
Schwartz<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Walter Bender wrote:
>> Use case: I send you a presentation that refers to objects in the
>> datastore. I need to send you those objects too, but I would not like
>> to have to use some additional layer of reference.
>
> Heh.  We don't support inter-object dependencies.  It's amazing how we
> keep having the same discussion over and over, though:

We do. We continually avoid it because it's hard, and because it's
basically orthogonal to the both versions and to "actions". Actions
(which exist only within the Journal) reference other objects, but the
inter-object linking you bring up is not required in this scheme.
Importing an image into eg. Write can (and currently does) still just
embed that image in the resulting write document, instead of
referencing it.

This is for similar reasons to the way activity bundles work. Objects
are self-contained...for better or worse.

Eben


> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2007-April/002210.html
>
> Maybe this time we will come to the other conclusion?
>
> --Ben
>
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