[Sugar-devel] Book bundles and Read

[Gary C Martin]

On 26 Jul 2009, at 20:16, Eben Eliason wrote:

> I've always envisioned a "Bundle" activity which is a glorified
> tar/zip/other-bundle-format viewing and creation tool. With Bundle, it
> would be possible to open any such file in the Journal (including
> activity bundles, of course) to view its contents. It would also
> support extracting all or part of the bundle contents to separate
> Journal entries, as well as creating new bundles from arbitrary
> collections of objects.
>
> It would even be possible to add collaboration on top of this, so
> groups of kids could create bundles together, aggregating entries from
> each of their Journals into a single product. This would be useful for
> group projects, for instance.
>
> I know a class took this on as a project at one point, though I never
> heard how that turned out. I believe
> this—http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4079—is the
> result, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet. In any case, it
> might be nice to keep it in mind, and perhaps extend its features in
> line with these new discussions for object bundles if appropriate. For
> instance, it might be possible to add some GUI tools for
> viewing/populating Sugar-specific manifest files, when desired.

Ah! thanks Eben, it had slipped under my radar (had been looking for  
it on out Gitorious site). I'll give the Activity a test and see  
what's what.

Regards
--Gary