PalmOS-like data storage

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl
Sat Jan 27 20:37:29 CET 2007


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Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schreef:
> Tomasz Zielinski wrote:
>> Most PDA applications needs save small set of data - user preferences,
>> high score list and so on. Does the OpenMoko support such operation
>> with it's API? If it doesn't, there is a risk developers will
>> implement dozens of different ways and every app will behave
>> differently.
> 
> Yeah, it's very important.
> 
>> There is of course some problems here, but I believe OpenMoko data
>> storage API is necessary. How do you think?
> 
> I agree 100%. However this is one of the areas where we didn't want to
> go forward without gathering community input -- so I'm looking forward
> to chose either one of gconf, sqlitefs, etc. during the next weeks.
> 
> What would you guys prefer?

Gconf and sqlitefs solve different things: gconf stores 'settings' and libsqlitefs aims
for object storage a la newton[1]. Maybe mister Schlesinger could enlighten us some more
about the ALP goodies.

regards,

Koen


[1] see http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/n800/
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