Update.1 activities download script

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Mar 15, 2008, at 1:55 , Gary C Martin wrote:

> On 15 Mar 2008, at 00:34, Ixo X oxI wrote:
>
>> Another great program to use to install .xo bundles..... is  'xo-
>> get'.  Has
>> both a console/terminal and Sugar/GUI interface.
>>
>>     http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Xo-get
>>
>> Currently under going testing, but pretty darn close with only a
>> handful of
>> 'un-documented features left'. :-)
>>
>> -iXo
>>
>> p.s xo-get also has one of the most extensive collections of
>> available .xo
>> activities to install .
>
> Yea, I use xo-get quite a bit previously very useful. However the GUI
> version has failed to work on any recent xo builds for quite some time
> (using a B4 here), and you do have to have already somehow installed a
> working terminal activity before you can use the command line version
> of xo-get, as it seems to have sugar dependancies that prevent it from
> running in the hidden command line. Maybe there are new versions that
> work under these situations?
>
> So not too great a fix just now for the activity bloodletting going on
> in the latest update-1 candidates ;-)

Xo-get does a lot more with its database of installed activities etc.  
Mine simply downloads and installs activities from the repository for  
"supported" activities.

But I'd be happy if someone merged my script into xo-get, I do not  
intend to maintain it indefinitely.

It should be simple to add the official activity repo to xo-get. In my  
script I like the simplicity of the default operation, which simply  
upgrades all installed activities to the latest version found in the  
repo. Also working from the console/ssh is useful, possibly one should  
even support for installation without Sugar running (by simply  
unzipping the .xo).

- Bert -