[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] SSB creator

[Lucian Branescu]

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2009/6/11 Lucian Branescu <lucian.branescu at gmail.com>:
> Update http://honeyweb.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/ssb-creator/
>
> 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
>>
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