Maemo is a platform that uses Scratchbox for its development environment, which is what Scratchbox is -- a development environment, provided to facilitate cross-compilations (especially of open-source projects that use the auto* tools/configure approach to their builds, since many of them will compile and run little test cases as part of figuring out what your configuration is). I believe the Maemo SDK is provided to help write applications for Nokia devices. You don't need to use the Maemo SDK to use Scratchbox -- you can use Scratchbox for whatever you need.
My understanding of Scratchbox2 is that it's an attempt to provide the same functionality as Scratchbox, but without the need for the chrooted environment. (Unfortunately, I happen to want the segregation of the chrooted environment -- I say "unfortunately" because there is one aspect of Scratchbox2 I'd very much like to have, which is that there's no limit on how many targets you can build for at one time.) I don't believe Scratchbox2 is destined to replace Scratchbox. Debian doesn't have anything to do with Scratchbox -- other than that Scratchbox is capable of using (and producing) Debian packages, if you want to. I would agree with you that the Scratchbox documentation could use some help, but once you get the hang of what Scratchbox is, and how it works, it's actually pretty straightforward. I would recommend installing it and looking around at its "insides" -- it helps take the mystery out of much of it (although there are still a few things about it I'm not entirely certain I've fully gotten a handle on :) Cruising around its source tree can also help. Diane On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Ray Kiddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having banged my head on the wall trying to get some scratchbox things > working, but seeing the value in doing this, I want to try to help document > some things and have started to do so, but a few questions I have are > holding me back. If anyone is willing to answer them, it would be much > appreciated: > > 1) Choose the correct phrase: > > Maemo is a plaform for development that is ( dependent on | related to | > derived from | seperate from ) the Debian tools platform. > > 2) Which of these is true? > > - Scratchbox (http://www.scratchbox.org/) is the current version and > should be used by most people, even though most of its documentation is old. > > - Scratchbox2 (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/sbox2) is the > current version and should be used by most people, even though it is mostly > undocumented. > > - Scratchbox2 will eventually replace Scratchbox. > > - Scratchbox2 has nothing to do with Scratchbox. > > - The Debian tools platforms stands on its own and can be used for > development. > > - Maemo is the suggested platform for development for most users. > > It is frustrating that the best documentation that I can find (http:// > www.scratchbox.org/documentation/user/scratchbox-1.0/html/installdoc.html) > seems to be more than three years old. But rather than being frustrated, I > have started making edits on the wiki. See > http://www.scratchbox.org/wiki/Scratchbox. This is pointed to from the > front page of this wiki by "Scratchbox", right under the external link for > "Scratchbox2". > > Does it seem odd to anyone else that the top link in a page on a wiki is a > link to a non-writeable page outside of the wiki? This does not seem very > wiki-like to me. > > I also found this page and will link to it, since it would have been > amazingly helpful to find this page earlier, before having to ask a bunch of > dumb questions. Did everyone else just find this, somehow, and it seemed not > worth mentioning? > > http://www.scratchbox.org/wiki/ScratchboxInstallation > > It occurs to me that this page might even replace the installdoc.html page > and it would be editable. So it could be kept up to date. > > cheers - ray > > _______________________________________________ > Scratchbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.scratchbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scratchbox-users >
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