On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Robert Schroll <rschr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Nekhelesh Ramananthan > <krnekhel...@gmail.com> 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 <uticdmarceau2...@yahoo.ca> > 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.
Seconded, the platform should offer a default, well-tested and well-documented way to solve the task at hand. > 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. > Agreed, I'm CC'ing Lucio and Christian explicitly. Lucio knows about U1, and Christian did the QML bindings for U1DB (see https://launchpad.net/u1db-qt). @Christian: Could you shed some light on the current status of the QML bindings. HTH, Thomas > Robert > > > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
