On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 05:38:31PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 03:35:05PM +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > Very quick (and possibly unfair) review: there are several "manifest + > > metadata + files, all zipped up" formats, some of them very popular in > > education. > > > > In other words, this fits IMS-CP to a T. Yes, we may want to initially > > support a subset of IMS-CP, or add some additional bits that are of > > use to us. That's fair game. > > > > Our needs in this regard are fairly standard. Let's leverage the many > > tools that know IMS-CP, and the vast amounts of content out there. > > > > (Several other formats are slight variations on IMS-CP too. Oh, and > > this would pull us towards DublinCore metadata as well, which will be > > anotehr good step). > > > > To put it in more direct terms: it is a "file format" proposal that > > does not have a "compatibility" section. Or a "related file formats > > that would be a good idea". > > > > As I mentioned, this may be grossly unfair on Aleksey, maybe there > > *is* a reason why we're a unique snowflake and it makes sense to build > > our own isolated island. It's just not written anywhere :-) > > > > cheers, > > Well, maybe its worth trying to utilize existed IMS-CP format.. > OB in that case just follows to library.info(.xol) and > activity.info(.xo) formats(they both use INI format), so we need to > ask people who created library.info activity.info first :)
..and in my mind the purpose of OB was keeping metadata while tranfering Journal objects between sugar-nonsugar-sugar not broader meaning > > > > > > > > > m > > > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > > > Martin, SJ, > > > > > > do you have anything to say? Do you know anyone in the field who has > > > anything to say about this? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Tomeu > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:46, Aleksey Lim<alsr...@member.fsf.org> wrote: > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> Object Bundles feature page > > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles > > >> > > >> OB deprecates .xol and .xoj bundles(but can import them) and provide > > >> major OB proposal's feature [1]. > > >> > > >> Tweaked Browse[2] uploads[3] OB instead of raw files the original > > >> idea was to upload bundles only if HTTP server requests it(by accept > > >> parameter of input tag) but in that case we should support it on > > >> server side thus cloned version of Browse uploads .xo in any case > > >> (later we can change it in some way but now its ready for testing > > >> at least). > > >> > > >> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles#Summary > > >> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles#Implementation > > >> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Object_Bundles#How_To_Test > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Aleksey > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Sugar-devel mailing list > > >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > martin.langh...@gmail.com > > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect > > - ask interesting questions > > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff > > > > -- > Aleksey -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel