Hi Michael! On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Michael Cronenworth <m...@cchtml.com> wrote: > The continued delay of PR 1.2 has caused me to pose this question. > > Without customized packaging, I cannot reliably publish applications to the > global maemo.org repositories at this time. Also having APIs in flux without > knowing when the new version is coming out makes me even less interested. > Sure, you can compile a new kernel or create a trivial application all day > long and ship it today, but I wish to write some rather advanced > applications that cover a broad range of APIs. > > At most, the SDK should have been released two weeks ahead of the final > release. With a little over a month now on the clock, people can only begin > to speculate as to how poor Nokia's release management is working. I, as a > software developer, realize that unexpected issues can occur causing > unexpected delays, so this e-mail is not a "Nokia hurry up" plea, but a > concern that developing for Maemo requires a serious commitment to add > checks for multiple versions of APIs and packaging requirements. > > If I relied on the ability to publish commercial applications to the Ovi > Store, I'd be living in the street. It's been six months and the Ovi Store > for Maemo is still without a commercial solution and is extremely limited in > general.
By commercial solution do you mean DRM? Thanks, Daniil. > In closing, I have a few questions to propose since communication from Nokia > in general is hit or miss (some are better than others, I realize): > > -Why was the PR1.2 SDK released at the time it was released? > -If there will be any updates >PR1.2, have there been discussions on > changing the staged release of the SDK? > -Is PR1.2 still going to be released? (I am not looking for a release date) > -Where are those Ovi Store applications that we have been taunted with > videos of? > -Will there be a commercial solution with the Ovi Store or should I expect > to create my own retail store? > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing list > maemo-developers@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers > _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
