On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Faisal Anwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know about (or can point me to docs for) the recommended uses of > the data, instance and tmp directories that exist for every activity > (usually found in the ~myhome/.sugar/default/org.laptop.MyActivity/ > directory)? In particular, I had the following questions: > > - what types of data should be written in each of these three subdirectories > and what is the difference between each? > - Are there specific permissions or ownership issues involved with these > directories.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#Writable_Directories > - When should developers be writing files or data to the datastore and when > should they instead by saving files directly to one of these directories? An activity has to save to the DS all that is required to resume the activity at a later point. You can see this as storing an activity into the freezer, so it can be unfrozen later and resumed. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
