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

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> Is it clearer now?

yes - thanks!

>> And while we're at it - is 'preview' completely gone?
>
> Check out that page, preview is a metadata property like the others.

So metadata stores binary files too? I thought it was meant to hold
straight utf-8 text (or json formatted), but not binary formats. If it
can store binary formats, it's a good idea to spell that out... and
which formats to expect too! The trick of the 'metadata' is that it's
readable by general tools (the journal, moodle) that don't know
specialised formats...

Or is 'preview' a text file with a filename of the actual preview file?

cheers,



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