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[Roberto Alsina <roberto.alsina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Martin Albisetti <
martin.albisetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Roberto Alsina
> <roberto.alsina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This also gives a solution to the question of getting the version
> numbers of
> > installed apps: we just query this DB
>
>
> So, IIRC, in order to know what apps you have installed, you're going
> to basically search the directory tree.
>

No, Colin is implementing a command line app to give that information.


> That being the case, why don't you, on download, also dump the json
> for all that app's data and put it in a file in the app's directory?
>
>
Because I can't write there, since the application installer runs in a
separate security context.

Also, because the scope may be already dead by the time the app is
installed.

Only the click application installer can. And the click application
installer doesn't have the translated metadata, or anything that is not
inside the click package itself.

If you have 200 apps installed on a slow SD, it might get slow,
> although I'm not sure if it'll be much slower due to this addition.
> I'd benchmark a bit, but overall it should be easy to change the way
> this is structured a bit later on, right?   :)
>

Sure, except that we'd need a "data migration" strategy so doing it more
than once is increasingly more painful :-)

>
>
> --
> Martin
>