On Wednesday 16 April 2008 15:48:03 Andy Green wrote: > The mainstream distros spent many years tackling the "being a distro" > side of things and ended up with two strong mature ways to do it that > are more or less identical in functionality. OE it seems to me spent a > lot off effort "doing cross", which is a great achievement, and less on > these thorny packaging issues.
No, OE also spent a lot of effort in packaging, think granularity, proper (automatic) dependencies, automatic regression testing, etc. It will take a lot of man-months to recreate this for any stock distro -- not mentioning that you will have to fight against distro maintainers who don't want that since they see no value in this. > Going on our devices inside will over time get more like PCs in > complexity, storage and capability, not less (this is independent of how > non-PC-like the form factors may sometimes be). If we just said "screw > it" and jumped on Ubuntu or Fedora native-compiled on Qemu, pain from > that will only lessen over time, not increase. I sincerely doubt that and I will not support such a decision, if Openmoko choses to move into that direction. :M:
