XO activity bundle .info format

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpgritti at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 03:53:50 EDT 2008


Douglas Bagnall wrote:
> In the course of making an activity server for the XS, I have looked
> at the activity.info files of 114 bundles from
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities.  One (Berkeley Logo) turned out
> not to be a bundle at all, and otherwise the tags I found were:
>
> name                       113
> icon                       113
> activity_version           111
> service_name               101
> show_launcher               76
> class                       61
> exec                        52
> host_version                35
> mime_types                  25
> bundle_id                   20
> id                           4
> update_url                   2
> runtime_library_dirs         1
> activity-version             1
>
> bundle_id || service_name  113
> bundle_id != service_name    0
>
> It seems that people are using bundle_id and service_name
> interchangeably, and that although the wiki[1] says bundle_id is
> required, service_name is more common.  Is it OK to assume these will
> remain as synonyms?  Might they ever diverge?
>   

service_name is deprecated, bundle_id is the correct one per:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles

Marco



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