On Thursday 18 September 2008, Oliver Fels wrote: > It is like an old but beloved car. It still runs and does what I want > but the older it gets it is harder to keep alive as efforts increase, > spares are harder to find and if I would like to have a bit more comfort > in it, the challenge starts.
Very good analogy :) > Two possible solutions from that dilemma have been discussed: > - Open Opie up for X11 applications: Does not solve the problem itself > but is more of a migration path away from Opie to soften issues (mainly > lack of applications) IMHO this is a non-starter, it would just sap what little resources we have and in the end you won't have actually acheived all that much. > - Follow the migration path of Qt/E to 4.x: Would open up new > applications (eg. coming from current KDE releases) but requires a huge > amount of effort especially to also migrate existing applications and > libraries, doing some necessary redesign, etc. This is a good idea, and I welcome someone else to do it - but at the moment I have enough to do without taking on another project. From what I can see, when you compare Qtopia 4.x and Opie as they are now, whilst Qtopia 4.x is very good, from a user perspective it can't (yet) match the breadth and functionality of applications that Opie already has (including third party applications that run on it), so someone starting with Qtopia would have a formidable task on their hands to make it an equal platform. I'm not saying it's not worth doing or that I won't eventually join that effort, but I'm trying to help people understand why right now I still want to keep Opie with its outdated Qtopia 1.x/QtE 2.x roots alive. Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
