Short arguments for all previous posts: 1) Any virtual PC (VMWare and etc.) have resources usage overhead. Which are significant for compiling Android images. On my notebook compilation takes 55 minutes.. I think with VMWare it will take much more time... Any changes on kernel level of android force developer to wait more and more time which is highly not effective. And as a job maker which pay for each work hour own developers, I think loosing of one hour each compilation is a significant disadvantage.
2) Git.. Yes GIT is very technologically advanced solution and I mention that. But at the same time is does not have any good and easy GUI for all OSs. For example to taking Android sources under windows mostly unresolvable task. Second point do I need distributed repositories?! No! At the current moment mostly everyone have access to the internet... and not so many people wants to check history of file changes... 3) Compilation under windows is possible. Task is not so hard as someone thinking... SDK compilation under windows is already DONE. so compilation of other parts also not so hard task especially with Google resources. On May 5, 9:02 am, "Al Sutton" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean by "Git is basically useless on the most popular > desktop OS", but the Windows cupcake SDKs I built involved a git/repo > checkout and a compile on a Windows machine which worked. > > Al. > --- > > * Written an Android App? - List it athttp://andappstore.com/* > > ====== > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the > company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, > 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not > necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's > subsidiaries. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse McGrew > Sent: 05 May 2009 01:30 > To: Android Discuss > Subject: [android-discuss] Re: Petitions to Google Android Team > > On Apr 30, 5:58 am, AlexK <[email protected]> wrote: > > ========= PETITION #1 ========= > > Change Android hosting from GIT to > > Subversion:http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/android-svn/ > > > Reasons are: > > - Subversion is also Free and Open Source; > > - Subversion has much better and usable GUI for all OSs; > > - Subversion supports all features required for proper version > > controlling and collaboration of large teams; > > - Subversion has integration with all IDEs that can be used for > > development of Android applications/modules; > > - Subversion has many web UIs for code reviewing, tracking changes, > > bug tracking, etc. And they are more advanced comparing to GitWeb > > solution; > > Well, *I* signed this one, because Git is basically useless on the most > popular desktop OS, and in any case it's far more complicated than anyone > really needs (except maybe the decentralized, international Linux kernel > team for which it was designed). > > But I don't know how sensible it is to switch to a more Windows- friendly > VCS without providing proper build support for Windows, and I can believe > the latter is impractical. If you're gonna have to install Linux to build > Android anyway, the case for moving to SVN gets weaker, because Git doesn't > have the same problems on Linux. > > Jesse --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
