Re: Public maemo repository

2007-08-07 Thread Rodrigo Vivi
Hi Quim Gil, When I wrote that I was not with nokia company in my mind but the maemo community that is made by people. I know that there is no free lunch, and many (most?) of this community is being payed to work on this platform, but I was thinking in free time contributing, that is common in

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-08-07 Thread Quim Gil
Hi Rodrigo, On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 19:57 -0300, ext Rodrigo Vivi wrote: Hi Quim Gil, When I wrote that I was not with nokia company in my mind but the maemo community that is made by people. No problem! I wasn't seeing you as anything different as community. In fact I wasn't answering to you

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-08-06 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Kees Jongenburger wrote: From my point of view as user as you call them has no access to the sbuild/buildd/debuild system, they get an sdk and that's it, Creating an improved dh_make , recompiling the package to use the thumb instruction set or not, are simply not part of the things

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-08-06 Thread Kees Jongenburger
On 8/6/07, Eero Tamminen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, ext Kees Jongenburger wrote: From my point of view as user as you call them has no access to the sbuild/buildd/debuild system, they get an sdk and that's it, Creating an improved dh_make , recompiling the package to use the thumb

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-30 Thread Daniel Stone
not make it easy to do either. I hope that this will improve in the future. just having a public maemo repository is not enough. % dh_make % debuild -us -uc (or, if you have a broken Scratchbox: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc) And debs appear. They'll work, but probably won't build

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-30 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Stone schreef: (That our SDK could certainly be improved is a separate issue as to whether we should use OE/BitBake or Debian packages.) Again, that is not an 'or', OE is perfectly capable of creating debian packages, as the Mamona distro

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-30 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To summarize the differences: * OE is a build and packaging tool * Scratchbox is a development tool Hmm: http://www.openembedded.org/ OpenEmbedded is a full-featured development environment [...] :-)

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-27 Thread Rodrigo Vivi
Hi Marius, I'll call by end user those developers that use the distro/SDK to develop their programs and by developer those that are coding the distro/SDK itself. OE makes developer's life easier because under OE repository there are a lot of package descriptions and tasks definitions that

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-27 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodrigo Vivi schreef: Some Months ago Koen said me a truth: Hackers like to code and don't want to spend their time packing To summarize the differences: * OE is a build and packaging tool * Scratchbox is a development tool They overlap in the

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-27 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Rodrigo Vivi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7/23/07, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Can't we just wait for Ubuntu Mobile? I don't believe that wait is a good approach. Yep, I agree. With waiting for Ubuntu Mobile I meant to wait for it to emerge enough that we can join

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-27 Thread Rodrigo Vivi
On 7/27/07, Koen Kooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodrigo Vivi schreef: Some Months ago Koen said me a truth: Hackers like to code and don't want to spend their time packing To summarize the differences: * OE is a build and packaging tool *

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-27 Thread Daniel Stone
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:36:55AM -0300, ext Rodrigo Vivi wrote: I'll call by end user those developers that use the distro/SDK to develop their programs and by developer those that are coding the distro/SDK itself. OE makes developer's life easier because under OE repository there are a

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-27 Thread Kees Jongenburger
Er, how is this different from Debian, where you have a number of package descriptions and task definitions that sbuild/buildd/debuild uses to build? (Bearing in mind that debian/rules is a Makefile, and thus infinitely flexible.) What kind of step does a user have to take between creating

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-26 Thread Adilson Oliveira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodrigo Vivi wrote: I don't believe that wait is a good approach. If we believe and conclude that Ubuntu Mobile will be a good alternative we need to join and help the Ubuntu community to do that. This kind of contribution that makes the free

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-26 Thread Rodrigo Vivi
On 7/23/07, Marius Vollmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext Kees Jongenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: from what I understand it' maemo that has been assembled from well known wood sources (debian/linux/glib/gtk). I just can't imagine that you could have been that creative/productive with

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-23 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext Kees Jongenburger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: from what I understand it' maemo that has been assembled from well known wood sources (debian/linux/glib/gtk). I just can't imagine that you could have been that creative/productive with hildon if you also had to manage external

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-23 Thread Marius Vollmer
ext [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, let me go once again back to this boat analogy. Be sure to understand that an anology is not a model for reality. You can't use it to predict how reality will behave. It is just an aid to talk about reality. Maybe because the whole concept

RE: Public maemo repository

2007-07-21 Thread quim.gil
Ok, let me go once again back to this boat analogy. I wasn't in the early days of this project so I really don't know the detals of the first decisions, but I still see that the options chosen probably made a lot of sense on that time. Maybe because the whole concept of something that is

Re: Public maemo repository (plus Intro)

2007-07-21 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, I'm a Debian Developer participating in Debian GNOME packaging and interested in the packaging of maemo apps. On Fri, Jul 20, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] But a non-stable repository is something different: a tool for developers. [...]

RE: Public maemo repository (plus Intro)

2007-07-21 Thread quim.gil
Hi Loïc, The first reason Nokia / Maemo might want to offer an unstable repository is quite certainly to ease developer participation. But I think there are two things which you're developing at the same time: - upstream development of some software (especially Hildon, misc N800 apps

Public maemo repository

2007-07-20 Thread quim.gil
Hi, But you can give users the choice to select option to install from unstable repository which may contain OS upgrade packages and this practice is ordinary. We have already announced our plans to allow updated via packages instead of having to reflash the device. This feature implies the

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-20 Thread Marius Vollmer
The steps for us to put this maemo unstable repository in place are not ordinary at all. Create and maintain a public repository is not an ordinary task in general. There must be clear reasons to do that and a crystal clear collection of needs and requirements. Change means work and there

Re: Public maemo repository

2007-07-20 Thread Kees Jongenburger
We didn't start out with a distribution and now fixing this of course means work to implement the changes. This work is mainly caused by missing the boat in the first place, in my opinion. The boat was there but we decided to swim instead. Maybe because the whole concept of something that