On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:44 +0200, Vollmer Marius (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote: > "Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <kimmo.hamalai...@nokia.com> > writes: > > > What prevents the community from releasing this "unstable" libhildon > > before Nokia does the "stable" release? > > The unstable release would not be of much use since people can not > easily install it on their devices.
I don't understand, wouldn't the forked/new widget library also have this same problem? > Right now, we have a very strict division between packages that are > released by Nokia, and the rest. You can not update a Nokia package > from the outside. You could put this "unstable" version to some "non-Nokia" repository and distribute it easily enough. It's understandable that the "Nokia repo" would not have it before a stabilisation period because it could break existing software. > At least not without making it terrible obvious that it is not just a > mistake. If 'everybody' agrees that, yes, let's release updates to > libhildon1 from Maemo Extras, then it can be done. > > But right now, I would say that this is far from business as usual. > That's why I am emphasizing this. Would be cool if it becomes business > as usual, of course. -Kimmo _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
