Matthew Toseland schrieb: > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 21:44, Jerome Flesch wrote: > >> I commited a patch into the node to make it possible to ask for expected >> > data > >> types with FCP. >> See http://wiki.freenetproject.org/FCP2p0GetConfig , >> http://wiki.freenetproject.org/FCP2p0ConfigData . >> >> I hope it will help you (anyway it will help me :) >> >> For periods, I can't make the data type more specific than "string" at the >> moment, sorrry. >> >> Currently, I'm wondering if it would also be a good idea to convert all the >> values into basic units (-> in bytes) and let the client apps displays it in >> a more user-friendly way ? (I'm not really sure how the client would handle >> values like '1025' ...) >> > > Exactly, there's a reason why we keep the original string. If the user wants > 12 GiB then we should remember that it's 12GiB and not 12884901888 bytes. >
You are right. I change my question to: why are there kbytes and* kibiytes? I wouldn't mind forcing one or the other upon every other client around by the way my client handles it. Juergen
