On Jul 23, 2008, at 16:31 PM, E Robertson wrote:
Most likely, unless people have fallen in love with SB1 and don't
want to
give up their chroot jail. Stockholm syndrome. SB1 costs about 10x
more to
develop and maintain.
Actually, I have for some time now but recently been having some
problems using my custom toolchain (or foreign toolchain as they put
it).
It's been something I'm working on off and on but it's been giving me
a beating. I do agree the maintainance is a problem but change takes
time.
I have to admit I took a look at OE and have been impressed with the
way things are done in it. But I still like SB.
I'm not going to get into "but SB is not a distro, like OE is"
argument. :)
With SB2 there is no "native toolchain" vs. "foreign toolchain",
anything goes as is, with no modifications. As long as the gcc
version is from this decade. For older ones I cannot guarantee, but I
suspect even they'll work.
- Scratchbox2 has nothing to do with Scratchbox.
Not true. SB2 will be used by Nokia to replace SB1 at some point,
it seems
to take quite long to happen though, not surprisingly.
- The Debian tools platforms stands on its own and can be used for
development.
Again I don't understand what you mean with "debian tools platform".
Maybe refering to emdebian or debian cross tools? Which is a different
environment that SB.
In that case I'd say that SB2 complements them, there is overlap, but
it's all down to how the SDK is put together. It's just one more tool
in the bag, nothing more, nothing less.
Most people who use SB (the people doing maemo work), got their
instructions
from their SDK provider (maemo.org in most cases).
The sad state of the documentation on scratchbox.org reflects
this. As for
SB2, I've not cared about documentation myself. If someone wants
to step
forward and start writing it into the fdo wiki, I'll promise to
answer *any*
question, more or less. :)
Maybe many haven't switch to SB2 yet? like me :-).
Probably, one of the big obstacles for developing SB2 is that most of
its potential users are using SB1 in their day jobs, they don't seem
to have time nor interest in experimenting with new ways. Funny how
easily open source is turned into a stagnated gray corporate
playground.. All it takes is a little money, and *poof*, there went
all the fun.
/lauri
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