[Sugar-devel] How to build an activity with a submodule?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 04:57, Benjamin M.
Schwartz<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I've made a branch gitorious repository at git.sugarlabs.org:
>
> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/pippy/repos/pippy-groupthink
>
> This repo uses a submodule to refer to groupthink, from
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/dobject/
>
> How can I produce an activity bundle to test?
>
> If I clone pippy-groupthink, and then initialize and update the submodule,
> I have all the files I need... but I also have all the .git* files and
> directories.  setup.py isn't smart enough to ignore these, so they wind up
> in the MANIFEST and in the bundle.
>
> Gitorious isn't smart enough to handle submodules itself, so downloading
> the gzipped tarball from gitorious doesn't provide sufficiently complete
> sources.

Have you solved this? Do you think bundlebuilder needs any change?

Thanks,

Tomeu

> So how can I produce an activity bundle?
>
> --Ben
>
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