On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:37:13AM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Cute. Incidental thought: is performing a translation an action? (If so, then when new versions of the source objects become available, it might be straightforward to "replay" the action on the new version of the sources.) Secondary thought: if translating is an action, then have we simply produced transient or instantaneous activities which have no GUI?
To me, the interesting claim is that these "transient activities" (or translators, if you think they're different) should be able to advertise that they can turn types A into (potentially) B, C, and D.) (If we expect the activities to be able to read the user's data in order to state make this determination, then we have even greater incentive to implement the Bitfrost P_DOCUMENT_RO and P_NETWORK protections - they seem to be ideally suited to this use case.) (Jill: "But Jack, what about Translators that require network access to function?" Jack: "I'm so glad you asked, Jill! In fact, ...") Michael _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar