[Sugar-devel] Browse.xo -- preserving a downloaded filename?

Michael Stone michael at laptop.org
Tue Jun 30 19:07:53 EDT 2009


Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> > What's your use case?
> 
> In the normal course of operation, the XOs will work with the XS over
> wireless, getting their individual leases. This is a fallback "rescue"
> leases.sig .

Here's a gentle suggestion on how to more quickly (but narrowly) implement this
use case: 

   why not use Pippy to write a minimal activity that downloads the leases.sig
   file [e.g. with urllib2, wget, or curl], tests for mounted USB sticks,
   prompts the user if they're missing, and that copies the leases.sig file to
   the USB stick?

I think this might be a good way to go because 

   * it'll be faster than figuring out how to solve file management,

   * it doesn't depend on anyone else making changes, and

   * it may be of some educational value to people who want to understand how
     the system actually works and how they might automate it for themselves. 

Regards,

Michael


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