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The folder connector was pointed at a Nextcloud VFS tree and got three things wrong, the first of which loses work. **A dehydrated sidecar read as absent.** `a.drsc` does not exist when the client has dehydrated it — only `a.drsc.nextcloud` does — so `get` missed, `.ok()` swallowed the `NotFound`, and the sidecar writer took that for "there is no sidecar yet" and wrote a fresh document over the existing one. Every edit another device had put there went with it. That function's own doc comment calls this the exact loss the format's unknown-key preservation exists to prevent. **A stub was catalogued as a 1-byte image**, and ARCH §9.0 measured this machine at 121,785 placeholders against 10,267 real files — so a folder library on a synced tree was ~92% broken rows. **Identity changed on hydration**, so downloading a photograph looked like a delete and an add, orphaning its thumbnail and its face rows. Entries now carry the photograph's own name and a `materialised` flag; `get` on a stub returns the new `RemoteError::NotMaterialised`, which is distinct from `NotFound` precisely because the sidecar writer must treat them differently — it fetches the sidecar and merges, or leaves the entry queued. Hydration is a **borrow**. `BorrowPool` records what was on disk before it asked, so `release_all` dehydrates only what a pass brought and leaves what the user already had. Reference counted: the thumbnail pass and the face pass meet on the same RAW, and without counting the first to finish dehydrates the file the second is reading. A borrow against a plain folder or a server does nothing, so a pass written for VFS runs everywhere. Releasing means asking the client to dehydrate and never deleting: a deletion inside a synced tree propagates to the server and removes the photograph from every device. Not a second backend — the capability is per *connection*, not per type, since the same folder hydrates only while the client runs. The convention arrives through a detector the registry supplies, so `dr-sync-folder` still knows nothing about any client's protocol. ARCH §9.0a records this as an amendment: finding 3 rejected hydration because it costs 100× a range read, and that comparison assumed a connector was available. A folder library has none.
DarkRoom
A cross-platform, non-destructive RAW photo editor for Linux and Android.
Status: early. v0.1 is a remote library viewer — see docs/milestone-v0.1.md.
Documentation
| Document | Contents |
|---|---|
| requirements.md | What the software must do — 122 numbered requirements |
| architecture.md | How it is built — crates, GPU pipeline, data model, sync |
| milestone-v0.1.md | The first buildable milestone |
| faces.md | Face detection and identity — the models, the licence problem, and what S14 measures |
Building
Desktop:
cargo run -p darkroom-desktop
Android (containerised toolchain, see docker/android):
./docker/android/build.sh cargo ndk -t arm64-v8a build --release
Current state
Working: workspace, GPU context and compute pass, adaptive Slint shell, Android cross-compilation of the core crates.
Not yet working: the zero-copy display path. The build currently uploads frames through the CPU, which is exactly what ARCH §6.1 forbids — measured at 96% of frame time at 4K. Replacing it is spike S1, the project's highest priority.
cargo run -p dr-gpu --example bench --features readback
reproduces that measurement.
Licence
GPL-3.0-or-later.
Releases
20
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