On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:33:19AM +0300, Marius Vollmer wrote: > However, the stores are also contstrained by what the devices are able > to do.
Absolutely, a working solution needs the cooperation of all parts (device, app, store). > Right now, for example, packages for the N900 in the Ovi Store can not > have dependencies to packages in Maemo Extras, although Maemo Extra is > enabled on all N900 devices. The Application Manager on the N900 > simply doesn't do the right thing. It may not be perfect but there's one very crucial difference: Nokia never tried to redefine "no dependencies" as the standard or exclude packages with dependencies from being Maemo apps, and (AIUI, please correct me if I'm wrong) are working on at least partially fixing it for the Ovi store case as well. It strikes me as odd that a company like Nokia gets this but the Linux Foundation doesn't. Also (and this may be an important take home message for the marketing people) the general perception as seen on mailing list / forum threads, blogs etc seems to be that it is the Ovi store that's broken, not individual apps, extras or the application manager. > A MeeGo device has a interface to applications that needs to be > regulated in the compliance spec, but it also has a interface to the > store services, which also needs to be regulated. Indeed, from both sides of the interface. L. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
