Bundle activity

[Bert Freudenberg]

IIUC the activity would not deal with files but with journal entries.  
So you can copy several journal entries into a zipped entry, and you  
can unzip entries from a zipped one. This has nothing to do with files  
in the home directory (besides, a regular activity cannot write to  
home, and read only some of it).

- Bert -

Am 11.09.2008 um 22:12 schrieb Erik Garrison:

> "Bundles" are files.  In this case they are compressed files.  I'm  
> just
> pointing out that if we're going to work with files of this kind we
> should think about working with files of the non-compressed kind.
>
> The overlap between the Bundle tool and a tool to allow the same
> operations on uncompressed files is pretty large.  Note that bundle
> management is usually dealt with in other desktop environments through
> the file browser.
>
> Erik
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:57:12PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
>> That's not within the scope of this activity, no.  This activity is
>> strictly about viewing and creating bundles.
>>
>> - Eben
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org>  
>> wrote:
>>> Matt,
>>>
>>> Would this activity be modified easily to take files from within the
>>> Journal and move them back into the user's /home/, either  
>>> compressed or
>>> uncompressed?  Call it the File activity.
>>>
>>> Erik
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:49:03AM -0400, Matt Der wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I am one of the students who will be working on the Bundle activity
>>>> suggested by Eben Eliason.  I understand that the activity should  
>>>> be
>>>> designed to manage a variety of archive formats (zip, tar, gz,  
>>>> etc.), and it
>>>> should support both the extraction of files from an archive into  
>>>> the Journal
>>>> as well as linking a set of entries from the Journal into a  
>>>> bundle.  Also, I
>>>> see a few additional details are provided in its wiki [
>>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Bundle_(activity)].
>>>>
>>>> Is this an active project right now?  If not, our team would like  
>>>> to start
>>>> working on it soon, but first we are looking for feedback on  
>>>> functionality,
>>>> how it should integrate with the Journal, UI particulars, etc.
>>>>
>>>> If this project is not currently active, we are eager to hear any  
>>>> helpful
>>>> input you might have.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Matt
>>>