Update.1 ex-preinstalled activities: stable vs unstable

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 13:58 , Simon Schampijer wrote:

> Morgan Collett wrote:
>>> I was going to make a .xo from git (jhbuild) and stick that up on  
>>> the
>>> wiki when I saw there are newer commits in git than release 19,  
>>> and that
>>> got me wondering:
>>
>> I added a download link to Pippy on [[Activities]] to
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~cjb/pippy/Pippy-19.xo.
>>
>> The formerly-preinstalled activities have either no download link  
>> or a
>> significantly out of date version. I updated a few more but gave up.
>>
>> Aside from the stable/unstable issue, I propose that activity authors
>> put .xos from their public_rpms in their public_html and maintain the
>> links on [[Activities]] and the activities' wiki pages to the
>> appropriate version there.
>>
>> Morgan
>
> I updated the links for browse, journal and memorize. The issue was
> raised yesterday as well in the sugar meeting. We need to have a
> better/easier way to publish the latest version of a bundle. This is a
> general issue that just showed it full degree with the loose of the  
> core
> activity principle.


There is discussion about an update_url activity property:

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

- Bert -