Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Erik Blankinship
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 2008/8/14 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There isn't an api for activity authors; however /home/olpc/Library (like /home/olpc/Activities) and subdirs are world-readable, so there probably should be. Yes, that might

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Eben Eliason
For clarification, is this a tool meant to be used by content providers on non-XO machines, or an activity for use in Sugar? I ask because, ever since we first designed the Journal, we've been in need of an activity (which should be called Bundle) which is specifically designed to manage a

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:34:58PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: For clarification, is this a tool meant to be used by content providers on non-XO machines, or an activity for use in Sugar? Content providers. I ask because, ever since we first designed the Journal, we've been in need of an

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:34:58PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: For clarification, is this a tool meant to be used by content providers on non-XO machines, or an activity for use in Sugar? Content providers. I ask

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:06:14PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:34:58PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: For clarification, is this a tool meant to be used by content providers on non-XO machines, or

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Garrison wrote: | Can you reasonably | expect to navigate more than 20 or 30 different entries without indexing | and search? Indexing and search are precisely what the Journal is supposed to provide. ~ In fact, there's a nice, fully functioning

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Erik Garrison
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:03:45PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Erik Garrison wrote: | Can you reasonably | expect to navigate more than 20 or 30 different entries without indexing | and search? Indexing and search are precisely what the Journal is supposed to provide. ~ In fact,

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:06:14PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:34:58PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: For clarification, is

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Eben Eliason
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 03:03:45PM -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Erik Garrison wrote: | Can you reasonably | expect to navigate more than 20 or 30 different entries without indexing | and search? Indexing and

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Shikhar
Eben Eliason wrote: snip As Ben mentioned, there are many places where tags/search are taking the place of more formal structures: Gmail, Delicious, Spotlight, and many others among them. The Journal has a pretty crappy interface into this at the moment, and naming/tagging isn't emphasized

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-14 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
quote who=Eben Eliason date=Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:34:58PM -0400 For clarification, is this a tool meant to be used by content providers on non-XO machines, or an activity for use in Sugar? I ask because, ever since we first designed the Journal, we've been in need of an activity (which

Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-13 Thread Henry Edward Hardy
Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:48:10 -0400, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May we please have a shared git repo named olpc-bundler for me (erik), sj, and mako? Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/git/projects/olpc-bundler Please follow instructions here for importing your project:

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-13 Thread Bobby Powers
what will olpc bundler do? bobby 2008/8/13 Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:48:10 -0400, Erik Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May we please have a shared git repo named olpc-bundler for me (erik), sj, and mako? Done. Your tree is here: git+ssh://[EMAIL

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-13 Thread Erik Garrison
You throw a directory of content of some kind at it and it automates the creation of a library bundle. On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 05:03:07PM -0400, Bobby Powers wrote: what will olpc bundler do? bobby 2008/8/13 Henry Edward Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:48:10 -0400, Erik

Re: Project Name: olpc-bundler has been set up

2008-08-13 Thread Martin Langhoff
2008/8/14 Samuel Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There isn't an api for activity authors; however /home/olpc/Library (like /home/olpc/Activities) and subdirs are world-readable, so there probably should be. In other words, `ls ~/Library` and `ls ~/Library/*/library/library.info` is your first API.