On 8/23/07, Ivan Krstić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Carlos Neves wrote: > > > Wait, does this mean I can't load an object from the datastore > > programaticaly ? > > Yes. > > > There goes the neighborhood! So all my assumptions on using the > > datastore to retrieve stuff based on tags is simply flawed? Why was > > this decision made? > > The rationale is here: > <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bitfrost#P_DOCUMENT:_file_store_service>
| Benign programs are not adversely impacted by the need to use | the file store for document access, because they generally do not | care about rendering their own file open dialogs... Except for the common situation of a program that wants to read from image, midi, media, text, game, or other files that the user has explicitly chosen to share with the world. | Malicious programs, however, lose a tremendous amount of ability | to violate the user's privacy or damage her data, because all | document access requires explicit assent by the user. The case at hand seems to be a set of data explicitly flagged for public consumption, as a property of the library it is part of [or by its author]. A dedicated space for 'published' material produced while running a given activity could be made world-readable, and programmatically readable by other activities, without loss of privacy or risk of data destruction. SJ _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
