[maemo-developers] Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

[From: Mohammed Hassan]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 22:22 +0200, Weinehall David (Nokia-D/Tampere)
wrote:
> On ons, 2009-09-09 at 16:53 +0200, ext Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik wrote:
> > :2009-09-09T17:11:Marius Vollmer:
> > 
> > > "Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <Kimmo.Hamalainen at nokia.com>
> > > writes:
> > > 
> > > > It would not be trivial task, perhaps it's easier to use some network
> > > > protocol, or make ext3 support for Windows :)
> > > 
> > > A file-based protocol is the way to go.  With ext3, we would still need
> > > to unmount the partition to export it, which isn't nice.
> > > 
> > 
> > First time around and not really a dev just a user but:
> > 
> > usbnet + scp as an option(winscp?)?
> > 
> > there is an ext2/3 driver for windows... a few of them at that as well
> > so maybe use one of those?
> 
> The problem isn't finding a solution for the computer literati, but
> rather for "normal" users.  Normal users that doesn't know what scp is.
> IMHO we have three options:
> 
> - Real VFAT (with all the drawbacks it brings)
> - VVFAT
> - A separate program (PC Suite, most likely) to do the transfers
> (probably leaving Linux and MacOS users out in the cold)

Or a tiny read only partition with winscp.exe and the rest is exposed
via ssh/scp

Only problem is ssh getting outdated and all the devices being
exploited. Bad.


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