I may be mistaken, but I think it means that one can delete structured data only, because it is owned data. You can only delete what you clearly own, and immutable, because of deduplication, could belong to others as well as oneself. The only way to for the network to tell is if it also tracked everyone who uploaded that chunk and track with permissions to delete. Not a good thing.
Edit to add: one can always effectively delete structured data that one solely controls simply by updating to contain nothing but its shell. I’m pretty sure the point in question refers to supporting the ability to simply do away with it altogether, all traces.
Imagine it “could” be done. Doubt it will be though. PUTs are PUTs. One way. A structured data chunk is smaller, but can be edited for free.
Might there be value in deleting so the network stops needing to keep track of something the owner doesn’t want? Perhaps, but compared to the immutable chunks which can’t be deleted, that’s not much.
My simpleton opinion from high altitude, not being that close to the code.
I’m reading through these github updates posted on the pre dev update and updates here and thinking do we have a list of all these features and what they do in plain English? A lot of them are just weird titles that don’t make sense. So really to understand the implications of each of these new additions of code we need to understand the function in plain English. Then how can that code be taken and turned into something the user can manipulate using an app or something in practical terms?
Yeah the big thing it looks like I’m (along with anyone else interested in making apps) waiting on is the new switch from SAFE Launcher to SAFE Authenticator.
This will completely change how apps interact with the SAFE Network. So we need this to be finished, in order to make apps.
I hope this doesn’t take a very long time, and is a quick change (ie. not as big as the rust change), so anyone wanting to work with SAFE can get going again soon.
Yeah, I want to make apps, I’m constantly coming up with ideas and seeing the implications of the SAFE network but wrapping my brain around the code is the hard part.
hmhmmmm - do you think this will change the systematics of how apps can run via safenet …?
because i’m a little bit confused … if it only changes the way apps sent their commands/data … this rework would only mean that the safeAPI-wrapper would have to be reworked too and nothing else would have to be changed in terms of app-code …? ( @frabrunelle )
Well I’m wondering if they strip down the launcher where are all the features the launcher currently serves going to go? Will we need a seperate app to run all those features or will they be intergrated into the demo app?
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