XO activity bundle .info format

[Bobby Powers]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mikus at bga.com> wrote:
>>> ... found that people are using
>>> 'org.laptop' as a prefix incorrectly (if everyone uses org.laptop as a
>>> prefix, then OLPC loses the ability to assign unique names in this domain).
>>
>> Undoubtedly people who are dbus developers understand the proper use
>> of the "organization_namespace".  But suppose someone in a far
>> corner of the world wishes to contribute.  All he knows is that a
>> three-part name-string gets applied to his Activity's interaction
>> with the rest of the system.  Since *he* never tests that name, he
>> may feel free to put anything at all into that name-string.
>>
>> I believe that life ought to be made as easy as possible for people
>> who want to enhance their Sugar systems.  Requiring "correctness" in
>> all parts of name-strings, when to non-insiders those name-strings
>> might seem meaningless, does not make their participation easier.
>
> Some time ago I tried to better document the expectations for
> bundle_id at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles#.info_File_Format.

I found this page very helpful and clear when I was first bundling my
activity back in May, thanks Scott.  I think that requiring
correctness is actually helpful in the long term, if anything we
should try to make the documentation more accessible.

bobby.

> If it were up to me, I'd just chose an opaque 64-bit UUID -- but I
> think most people feel like a human-readable string "makes
> participation easier".
>  --scott
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