Pranav Desai wrote:
My attempt is to make existing opensource apps available for Openmoko. If I have rewrite or wrap around the existing build process just to fit the OE model then it seems a bit discouraging.
Contrast this with Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc ... you're effectively saying that Debian repositories with GPG signed packages are not required - you are saying that people should just download random binaries from random sites and take the consequences, or they should be smart enough to build the packages themselves.
Maybe its trivial to include apps into OE, but currently it seems more than that to me. And especially, with the toolchain out, it seems even more easier to build apps as-is and just putting out the binaries for people to use.
And therein starts the decline of Openmoko application availability into the poor practices of the windows world ... encouraging people to download and install binary applications with no means of determining exactly how they were built (and therefore not able to verify that something bad hasn't been included in them).
I thought the Openmoko developer community would want to better than that ...
-- Rod
