Talk:Activity bundles
Revision as of 14:55, 4 September 2006 by 156.109.18.18 (talk)
Bundle activities in filesystem images?
Why not pack the entire bundle into a "disk image", e.g., using (z)isofs or cramfs? Hence, one application would be exactly contained within one file (similar to AppDirs, but one file instead of one directory).
This image would be mounted at the runtime, and unmounted again after usage has ended.
That way, the bundle becomes more "robust" (in the sense that it is read-only and cannot alter itself), plus it can be more easily exchanged (e.g., via mail/wlan) without the need to re-package it.
The impact of the additional overhead on speed is minimal, as my tests have shown.
I am in the process of providing a demo implementation. Some ideas are also provided on http://klik.atekon.de/wiki/index.php/OLPC -- [probono]
