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[Robert Schroll <rschroll@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Nekhelesh Ramananthan 
<krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This email is concerning persistent storage options for an Ubuntu 
> Touch application developer. I hope this doesn't turn out to be a big 
> email, but in any case here is a short summary of this email. What is 
> the future of U1dB-Qt? Currently the documentation and tutorials for 
> using U1dB is quite limited and lacking in several area. Would it be 
> possible to engage with the original U1dB-Qt developers to improve 
> this?

[...]

> I did find some links to U1dB-Qt resources [1],[2],[3] which help a 
> little but is still missing a big chunk of features.

If it should help, I wrote up a post on using U1DB procedurally back 
when I was trying to learn it: 
http://rschroll.github.io/beru/2013/09/04/using-u1db-procedurally.html. 
Anyone writing up better documentation is welcome to use what I wrote, 
or perhaps just the correct parts thereof.

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 3:34 PM, David Marceau 
<uticdmarceau2007@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From the sounds of it you don't want to be limited to using *U1dB *and
> *Qt LocalStorage*. No problem.
> *****You can pick your favourite C++ based persistent solution from 
> the
> standard Ubuntu repositories but targetted for Ubuntu Touch.
I don't mean to get too distracted on this tangent, but this is a 
negative, not a positive, for the developer trying to learn the Ubuntu 
SDK.  (See the "Paradox of Choice".)  One of the things Ubuntu does 
very well is make opinionated choices on our behalf (even when they're 
wrong!), and that should be the case here as well.  While it's nice 
that the developer who wants to use mongodb can, that doesn't help the 
developer who just wants persistent storage.  For them, there should be 
one, and only one, obvious way to do it.  U1DB seems positioned to be 
that way, but its documentation is wanting.  This is certainly a 
problem.

Robert