[Sugar-devel] Object Bundles review and inclusion to 0.86/Feature_List request

[Martin Langhoff]

Very quick (and possibly unfair) review: there are several "manifest +
metadata + files, all zipped up" formats, some of them very popular in
education.

In other words, this fits IMS-CP to a T. Yes, we may want to initially
support a subset of IMS-CP, or add some additional bits that are of
use to us. That's fair game.

Our needs in this regard are fairly standard. Let's leverage the many
tools that know IMS-CP, and the vast amounts of content out there.

(Several other formats are slight variations on IMS-CP too. Oh, and
this would pull us towards DublinCore metadata as well, which will be
anotehr good step).

To put it in more direct terms: it is a "file format" proposal that
does not have a "compatibility" section. Or a "related file formats
that would be a good idea".

As I mentioned, this may be grossly unfair on Aleksey, maybe there
*is* a reason why we're a unique snowflake and it makes sense to build
our own isolated island. It's just not written anywhere :-)

cheers,



m

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Martin, SJ,
>
> do you have anything to say? Do you know anyone in the field who has
> anything to say about this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tomeu
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:46, Aleksey Lim<alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Object Bundles feature page
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles
>>
>> OB deprecates .xol and .xoj bundles(but can import them) and provide
>> major OB proposal's feature [1].
>>
>> Tweaked Browse[2] uploads[3] OB instead of raw files the original
>> idea was to upload bundles only if HTTP server requests it(by accept
>> parameter of input tag) but in that case we should support it on
>> server side thus cloned version of Browse uploads .xo in any case
>> (later we can change it in some way but now its ready for testing
>> at least).
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles#Summary
>> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles#Implementation
>> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles#How_To_Test
>>
>> --
>> Aleksey
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>



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