On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:54:23PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > >"tmp" is transient and "conf" and "data" are persistent. > > What's the difference between data and conf then?
The difference concerns how configuration data from old versions of an activity are handled. The 'data' dir is per-activity-version. The conf dir is also per-activity-version but, the first time you launch a new version [and only the first time, if we can engineer it], the conf-dir for the new version will contain a read-only copy of a previous version's conf data for you to scan, if you wish. The old data will likely be presented as the directory $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/conf/old Some slightly dated notes that will be brought up to date shortly are available at http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/krstic/installer;f=README.updates;hb=HEAD; [Some people, notably _sj_ have suggested that we should make all old configuration data available, read-only, on every activity launch. The motivation for Ivan's proposed scheme, as I understand it, is to protect the use from activities which crash when reading old config data by only showing them such data once]. Next question, please? :) Michael _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
