status of MANIFEST file

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Edward Cherlin schrieb:
> On Dec 8, 2007 4:18 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
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>> Hey all,
>>
>> Daniel and me are again having another weekend-jam working on the
>> activity handbook
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> Excellent. Does it have a Wiki page? Would someone put a link and a
> brief description on the OLPC Publications page?
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There's a brief overview of the chapters that we're thinking to include 
over on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hacking_Sugar#Programming_Sugar

Basically the activity handbook should end up being something like all 
those "learning <insert language of choice> in 21 days" types of 
documents. We really want to guide programmers who have no prior 
knowledge of OLPC, Sugar, etc. in being able to write activities for the XO.
> Can I join in?
>   
In order to preserve the coherence that we aim to achieve with the 
handbook (as opposed to the mess on the Wiki) we have decided to limit 
the number of contributors for the moment being. That will allow us to 
create the necessary structure and basis before releasing it into the wild.

At the moment we think that we'll make the first public release of the 
handbook in mid-January.... So stay tuned!

Cheers,
Christoph
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>> and we've just spent the past half hour looking at
>> different .xo packages from the git-repository to see how the MANIFEST
>> file inside the .xo package is being used.
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>> Results really vary, some activities don't come with a MANIFEST at all,
>> some only list a file or two inside the MANIFEST while others really do
>> come with a complete index of all the files included in the package.
>>
>> So what I'm basically asking is what the exact requirements for the
>> MANIFEST file are as activities seem to work regardless of what it contains.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christoph
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