[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] SSB creator

[Lucian Branescu]

1. I don't really want to zip it if I can avoid it. If I do zip it and
get an .xo, how can I add it to the Journal programatically?

2. I've changed that. All SSBs are subdomains to org.sugarlabs.ssb
(like org.sugarlabs.ssb.GMailActivity)

2009/6/7 Bobby Powers <bobbypowers at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Lucian
> Branescu<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For my project, I will extend Browse with the ability to create SSBs.
>> Read more here http://honeyweb.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/the-user-experience/
>>
>> I have made a small script that is triggered by a button in the Browse
>> toolbar. It also works from Terminal.
>>
>> Later on this script will do more things, but I'd like some feedback
>> about it as early as possible.
>
> Hi Lucian,
>
> 2 things:
>
> 1) rainbow should prevent you from creating new activities in
> ~/Activities, so I don't think that approach would work on an XO with
> an OLPC build.  Since I think what you want is to create an activity,
> zip it, and add it to the journal, you could probably do something
> like this:
> import tempfile
> ssb_path = tempfile.mkdtmp(dir=activity.get_activity_root())
>
> 2) the bundle_id you create probably should begin with org.laptop , as
> that could cause collisions with other activities.  maybe
> org.sugarlabs.ssb ?
>
> nice start so far!
>
> bobby
>