[sugar] Sharing data between activities.

[Ivan Krstić]

On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:57 PM, Carlos Neves wrote:

> Wait, does this mean I can't load an object from the datastore  
> programaticaly ?

Yes.

> There goes the neighborhood! So all my assumptions on using the  
> datastore to retrieve stuff based on tags is simply flawed? Why was  
> this decision made?

The rationale is here:
<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bitfrost#P_DOCUMENT:_file_store_service>

The datastore might grow methods for dealing with resource files in  
the future, but I don't foresee it doing so in a cross-application  
way until a proper security-conscious design can be put forward. I've  
thought about this problem quite a bit and don't yet have a clear  
idea of how it would work. Don't expect it for FRS.

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