Re: Fcp sizes and time

On Thursday 14 February 2008 14:45, juergen urner wrote:
> Matthew Toseland schrieb:
> > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 21:44, Jerome Flesch wrote:
> >   
> >> I commited a patch into the node to make it possible to ask for expected 
> >>     
> > data 
> >   
> >> types with FCP.
> >> See http://wiki.freenetproject.org/FCP2p0GetConfig , 
> >> http://wiki.freenetproject.org/FCP2p0ConfigData .
> >>
> >> I hope it will help you (anyway it will help me :)
> >>
> >> For periods, I can't make the data type more specific than "string" at 
the 
> >> moment, sorrry.
> >>
> >> Currently, I'm wondering if it would also be a good idea to convert all 
the 
> >> values into basic units (-> in bytes) and let the client apps displays it 
in 
> >> a more user-friendly way ? (I'm not really sure how the client would 
handle 
> >> values like '1025' ...)
> >>     
> >
> > Exactly, there's a reason why we keep the original string. If the user 
wants 
> > 12 GiB then we should remember that it's 12GiB and not 12884901888 bytes.
> >   
> 
> You are right. I change my question to: why are there kbytes and* kibiytes?
> I wouldn't mind forcing one or the other upon every other client around by
> the way my client handles it.

Because there was no real reason to force one or the other? Feel free to 
convert it into bytes and offer a slider in your app.
> 
> Juergen

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