[sugar] Updating an activity with a .xo file

Michael Stone mstone at sccs.swarthmore.edu
Wed Aug 22 13:52:02 EDT 2007


Keith,

It's an excellent question, and, so far as I know, we don't have a good
answer yet. That being said, coming up with at least a basic answer is
definitely on my to-do good list for the next couple of weeks.

Michael

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:53:51PM -0400, Keith R. Fieldhouse wrote:
> This may be a silly question, but I wasn't able to find an answer on the 
> Wiki on the mail archives.
> 
> What is the best way to update a previously installed activity?  Right 
> now sugar-install-bundle works with a .xo file quite nicely.  But, if a 
> new .xo is created there isn't, as far as I can tell, an easy way to 
> install it over the previous one.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?  Or is it really a matter of manually 
> deleting the activity and re-running sugar-install-bundle.  I've tried 
> incrementing the version in my activity.info but that didn't seem to 
> help.  Is there some path other than sugar-install-bundle that's better.
> 
> Again, my apologies if this is a silly question.
> 
> Keith
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