Chimpy McSimian IV, Esq. wrote: > > If anything, it sounds like you should stick with exposing a tree > > structure to users.
David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > This would be incompatible with supporting fine-grained sharing Sharing is typically browsing. Browsing arbitrary graphs is fine. Manipulating arbitrary graphs is not fine. Most manipulation tools should manipulate a tree. If a tree is being manipulated, then what is displayed to be manipulated, or as the results of manipulation, must also be a tree. Windows explorer (a browse and tree manipulation tool) displays three kinds of things in a directory: Folders, shortcuts, and files. Shortcuts and folders form an arbitrary graph, folders form a tree, files are leaf nodes of the current folder. When manipulating, shortcuts are treated as leaves, so one always manipulates a tree, even though one browses an arbitrary graph. _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
