[Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 67, Issue 12

[Jerry Vonau]

On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 08:46 +0200, Tony Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I placed the activities in the library on the school server -Django app.
> Browse downloads a selected activity. Users can erase unneeded 
> activities to manage storage (they can always be installed again).
> The updater is not really needed since the model is that the deployment 
> updates the server annually before school starts. This seems reasonable 
> since most activity updates relate to changes in the Sugar environment 
> which also would be updated annually.
> 

Any reason your not using the XS's built-in activity server?[1] Seems
like a better way of using the built-in[2] software on the XO which
looks for the schoolserver for activities to be updated by default
without adding anything new to the XS except for the newer activities. 


> It was reported at one time that the underlying model (Firefox add-ons) 
> was moving to Django and that ASLO would do so also. If that happens, it 
> would be easy to remount on a SS.
> 
> Tony
> 

Not knocking your implementation just wondering why use Django as you
could still browse to the activities at: http://schoolserver/activities/

Jerry

1. http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/martin/xs-activity-server/
2. http://git.sugarlabs.org/sugar-update-control



> On 11/26/2012 07:00 PM, server-devel-request at lists.laptop.org wrote:
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:39:52 -0600
> > From: Jerry Vonau<jvonau at shaw.ca>
> > To: Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu>
> > Cc: XS Devel<server-devel at lists.laptop.org>,	Sugar-dev Devel
> > 	<sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Server-devel] offline a.sl.o
> > Message-ID:<1353904792.1818.2.camel at F14jerry.home.vonau.ca>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> >
> > On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 20:04 -0800, Sameer Verma wrote:
> >> >Has anyone looked into running an offline copy of
> >> >activities.sugarlabs.org on a server that isn't on the Internet (a la
> >> >XS)?
> >> >
> > What would be do-able except sugar's activity updater on the XO would
> > select every activity for installation by default[1].
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> > 1.http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2011-December/034022.html
> >
> >
> >> >cheers,
> >> >Sameer
> >> >--
> >> >Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> >> >Professor, Information Systems
> >> >San Francisco State University
> >> >http://verma.sfsu.edu/
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