Also spracht Lalo Martins (Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:40:51 +0000):
> Sorry to resurrect this, but after working with s5 for two months, I
> still have the same concerns, only more so :-)
Actually, never mind; I had an epiphany ;-)
Here's basically how it works...
My VOS browser is looking at a remote site, and finds an object of a type
it doesn't know. Now, for some reason, it wants to introspect this
object (maybe to build a python wrapper?). What can it do?
Well, it just asks the remote host to send over a replica of the site
containing that class. My local replica won't be considered
"authoritative", since the host don't have the private key, but then
again the remote host doesn't either -- library sites are "ghost" sites,
that no host has the private key for.
Now, this could easily be done by treating Library objects specially, and
putting in place a system to replicate them. But why make special cases,
when there's already a perfectly good system to replicate sites?
best,
Lalo Martins
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