Werner Almesberger wrote:
Rod Whitby wrote:
And therein starts the decline of Openmoko application availability into
the poor practices of the windows world ...
;-) It's really two different usage scenarios: one is the "nice and tidy
distribution", the other is getting something to build and, sometimes,
to disseminate it quickly.
Fully agree. The problem occurs when the "quick and dirty"
dissemination to other developers and alpha testers evolves into being
the main end-user distribution channel. The quick and dirty will happen
by default, so someone needs to continue to push towards the "nice and
tidy distribution" if it's to happen at all and not degenerate into chaos.
While there are people who indeed have the angelic patience to work in
distribution mode all the time, for most of us, this is just too much
pain and overhead. (Hi Andy ;-)
>
Also, having a toolchain that makes it easy to cross-build from sources
will help a lot towards people not even wanting to download pre-built
binaries.
Fully agree.
There will also be people (including resellers of application specific
turnkey solutions involving openmoko hardware) who will want to select a
set of applications for a custom rootfs build.
If application developers want their software to ever be part of a
custom installation, or to even be part of the standard factory build
that openmoko installs, then it's in their interest to learn how to
package their software in the official distribution system ...
-- Rod
