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The purpose of this HOWTO is describe how to get benefits of [[Activity_Team/Services|Sugar Services]] for your library/application, simplify support fork flows and let your users(developers) [[Activity_Team/Documentation/Services/Activity_Developers_HOWTO|use]] your code in simple and convenient way.

The purpose of this HOWTO is describe how to get benefits of [[Activity_Team/Services|Sugar Services]] for your library/application, simplify support fork flows and let your users(developers) [[Activity_Team/Documentation/Services/Activity_Developers_HOWTO|use]] your code in simple and convenient way.

== How it works ==

Services are just a set of definitions for urls and names for 0install feeds, it provides to activity developers [[Activity_Team/Documentation/Services/Activity_Developers_HOWTO#Using_Services|convenient]] way to use services. But [http://0install.net/injector-packagers.html regular 0install work flow] still [[Activity_Team/Documentation/Services/Activity_Developers_HOWTO#Low_level_using_of_0install_feeds|works]]. The rest of document describes sugar specific work flow to meet [[Activity_Team/Documentation/Services/Activity_Developers_HOWTO#Using_Services|0sugar]] benefits.

Services are just a set of predefined urls and names for 0install feeds, it provides to activity developers [[Activity_Team/Documentation/Services/Activity_Developers_HOWTO#Using_Services|convenient]] way to use services. But [http://0install.net/injector-packagers.html regular 0install work flow] still [[Activity_Team/Documentation/Services/Activity_Developers_HOWTO#Low_level_using_of_0install_feeds|works]]. The rest of document describes sugar specific work flow to meet [[Activity_Team/Documentation/Services/Activity_Developers_HOWTO#Using_Services|0sugar]] benefits.

 

Service publishing work flow is similar to activities. There is an info file, here ''service/service.info'', which describes current status(not history) of development process. All these fields, finally, go to feed file while publishing new version.

 

All fields should be placed to ''[Service]'' section

To start, install ''0sugar-publish'' which is main tool to maintain services infrastructure

 

 

To start using services, install ''0sugar-publish'' which is main tool to maintain services infrastructure.

  0alias 0sugar-publish http://download.sugarlabs.org/services/0sugar-publish/feed.xml

  0alias 0sugar-publish http://download.sugarlabs.org/services/0sugar-publish/feed.xml