On 04/01/2010 05:26 AM, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi Max, > > Max wrote: >> I would prefer to buy a nokia n 900 with meego operating system. > > In light of this response and your other mail saying that the OS without > a GUI is "useless", are you aware that the project is targeting > primarily software developers at this point, and not "end-users" > (whatever that means in a free software context)? > > I ask only because if you are expecting a consumer operating system > which will work perfectly when installed on your (phone/netbook/car) in > the next couple of months, you run the risk of being disappointed and > very frustrated. > > Cheers, > Dave. >
I can't speak for others, but I am expecting what developers for other platforms have - an end-to-end way of assuring that our apps are going to a. Work b. Look good and be easy to use c. Perform acceptably I can get that for iPhone or Android with the SDK. I think I could get it with Maemo and Moblin, but never looked. And if I want to develop for multiple platforms, I can collect SDKs and use one of the expensive "write once deploy everywhere" toolboxes like Rhomobile or Titanium. MeeGo needs to at least have an end-to-end SDK, including an emulator. I'm assuming the ARM cross-compilers, assemblers and other tools are there - I just haven't had a chance to dig into the GCC docs. And I know the Qt Creator is there. But what about an ARM emulator - does Qemu do that? Are there others? What's the best? How do I install it, configure it, etc.? Is there a wiki page? Developers *cannot* exist without end users! And in agile development, the end users are part of the team every step of the way. You can't say that a platform is "not targeting end users at this point." There aren't any useful pieces of my workflow I can implement with just Qt Creator and three kernel images that will boot on hardware I don't have. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
