Hello, Few words about version 2.5 and our migration to Debian Wheezy 7.x, the current stable release of Debian. As you know this is an important step forward for our project because we'll be able to use efficient ARM ports of Debian as well as the Raspberry Pi specific port. And to say the truth, the more I progress in this migration, the more I'm convinced it is important!
One week ago, I started to migrate the most advanced activity “Whole DDL” to Wheezy. My objective is to provide Debian packages that install this activity alone, without any main menu, in order to let people start testing DDL on Wheezy. I'm now close to have an environment that is graphically similar to Whole DDL but without installing DDL full, as explained. I'll write a post on our blog as soon I have finished this first step. Then I'll have to migrate configuration tricks to this environment so that this environment is complete. Concerning ARM, fortunately I found out ways to cross-build Debian packages on my native architecture amd64 (PC 64 bits) for foreign architectures, namely armhf/Debian and armhf/Raspberry Pi (Raspbian). No more need to have a real build environment running on ARM, and then exchanging files on USB keys. This also means I'm now able to progress simultaneously on all the supported architectures: things that work on one arch should work on all the other ones. As of writing, I've just installed the full set of DDL applications on a Genesi Efika laptop (armhf/Debian) with the packages I modified to get a standalone Whole DDL activity. And guess what? It seems to be working very well :). Performances are much better than those we had with DDL / Debian Squeeze / armel – although some games are still not playable. If you have a Raspberry Pi at home, I'll provide a disk image within few weeks :). In the mean time, our Debian package repository already contains new packages for Wheezy and a special repository for RPi has been setup. I'll write a post about this very soon. Stay tuned! -- Cheers, JM.
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