I don't speak for the MeeGo project, Intel, Nokia, or anyone else but I just wanted to respond to this in light of what I've gathered over the months..
It's a work in progress, and they're using the "release early, release often" method of doing this. This means we are getting something now, that isn't ready for all use cases or maybe not even most. In the coming months the missing pieces will appear. In the meanwhile, we can already use what we have, and I think it's better this way instead of them being completely silent about it until the whole thing is released all at once some time in the future. So now, if one is interested, there is a chance to get to know the platform. The GUI, emulators etc. will come later. > 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? Qt Creator + MADDE are the environment for writing the software and building it for your target platform. They enable you to do it in a cross-platform way from (Linux, Windows, Mac) -> (MeeGo x86, MeeGo ARM, N900 ARM) so it's more like a cross-cross-platform environment. The missing piece is the emulator, which for ARM is going to be QEMU. That will most probably come some time later, you can already see it being developed at gitorious if you're interested in the day-to-day situation.. > 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. I am sure they know this and are working around the clock to finish something that they will be able to call a release. This one was named a "code drop" for a reason :) _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
