On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 06:36:39 -0600 Mats Wichmann <[email protected]> said:
> A while back, On 02/25/15 00:41, Du, Dolpher wrote: > > **On behalf of Tizen development tools team and all other contributors** > > > > We are pleased to announce that new version of Tizen development > > tools [15.01] is released on download.tizen.org, including the following: > ... > > For information about Tools repositories, refer to: > > > > [Tools Repository](http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/) > > Curious about the plans for (and also "how can we help?") support of > newer versions of distributions. It's a pain to have to keep picking up > new stuff I know, but sometimes we end up constrained, by new computer > hardware, to use quite a new distribution. Personally I'm in such a > case needing Ubuntu 15.04 to make a new laptop work. Fedora 21/22 and > Debian 8 are in the same situation, not in the supported list. i just spent all of yesterday fighting with qemu, binfmt misc emulation and simply it not running arm binaries - i used a "new" distro (arch) because i frankly find it valuable to be able to track new sw far more easily (esp useful for wayland), but gbs just can't work. after many hours i've given up. generally imho the whole qemu "let's fake an arm system process-by-process" is a very fragile hack. it's simply bd and makes it very hard to work with tizen as pretty much the only thing gbs works on is some old version of ubuntu. it's time we dump gbs. it's far too limiting. we have to move to a pure cross-build ala yocto. debugging qemu binfmt emulation is a nightmare - it's pretty close to impossible, and an insane time-sink. if we are going to limit people to a distribution - it should be tizen itself. <grumble grumble grumble> :) -- Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] https://lists.tizen.org/listinfo/general
