Re: CVS, GWorkspace.app and app wrappers

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2004-10-03 16:08:22 +0300 Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 03 Oct 2004 11:46:45 +0200, Larry Cow <larry@doubidou.net> wrote:
>> Enrico Sersale a écrit :
>> 
>>> The problem is that annotations and colors must be saved somewhere.
>>> [snip]
>> 
>> Instead of libdb, maybe we could look into SQLite. But that's almost the
>> same idea.
>> 
>> [snip]
>> --
>> Larry Cow
>> 
> 
> Yup libdb is a good idea. Enlightenment used libdb2.7 and built a
> whole transaction and logging layer on top of it for all their disk
> bound data. Im just a little worried of having separate metadata and
> file data. What if the file was deleted and the metadata is not? Would
> the synchronization be complex?

No, it's not so complex.

> Im not sure about extended attributes. You need to build a layer to
> handle it. It will not work outside linux though. Is anybody using
> gworkspace on windows?
> 
> Why not just put everything in directories like the .apps? That way we
> have a flexible metadata system and everything stays together. It will
> be slow though.

Because you can't set attributes in the directories that you don't own.