[Sugar-devel] Adding support for new datastore to the XS...

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 19:07, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Sascha Silbe
> <sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:48:26PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>>
>>> looking at the new DS as implemented in SoaS. To confirm, is this
>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Datastore_Rewrite what
>>> is implemented in 0.84?
>>
>> Yes, it is. And to give you an early warning: I'm going to change the data
>> store on-disk format again for 0.86 (see [1]). There's no way around it,
>> sorry.
>
> Cool. Can someone with wikiadmin magic then rename that page from
> 'Datastore rewrite' to 'Datastore 0.82' or similar? "New" and
> "rewrite" often end up being "old" and "deprecated" ;-) If we
> 'soft-version' our plans then it's a lot easier to refer to them...

Is it clearer now?

> And while we're at it - is 'preview' completely gone?

Check out that page, preview is a metadata property like the others.

Thanks for the heads up,

Tomeu

>> Do you need to access the data store directly on disk or can you go through
>> the API? If the latter, is there anything lacking in the current API that
>> would make your life easier?
>
> On the XO side, ds-backup-client uses rsync to... well, rsync to the
> server. So being rsync friendly, both in atomicity and saving
> bandwidth by having things in one place.
>
> On the XS side, the on-disk structure of the ds gets read by PHP code
> written by me, so keep it simple, please :-)
>
> cheers,
>
>
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