Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-06-04 Thread nickd
What music applications would you be sharing? -nick Jay Vaughan wrote: I thought the Openmoko developer community would want to better than that ... Whats missing IMHO is a Repository Leadership clique, wherein a known group of people are responsible for some nice repositories that

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | 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

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | in a main repository? In Fedora, the multitude of repositories for | downloading packages has caused nightmares of dependency hell when | users install from two or more repos that carry some of the same

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-06-04 Thread Werner Almesberger
Andy Green wrote: Hi yourself... I guess you must have started using Openmoko build system then because last time we spoke about it you were avoiding it same as me - -- for the same reasons. I think you misunderstood me there - I wasn't referring to myself when I mentioned the angelic patience

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-06-04 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Andy Green wrote: | Hi yourself... I guess you must have started using Openmoko build system | then because last time we spoke about it you were avoiding it same as me | - -- for the same reasons. | | I

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-06-03 Thread Dylan Semler
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the Openmoko developer community would want to better than that ... Whats missing IMHO is a Repository Leadership clique, wherein a known group of people are responsible for some nice repositories that

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-05-30 Thread Pranav Desai
On 5/29/08, Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pranav Desai wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The usual way is to add the package to OpenEmbedded, and then add it's name to the task-openmoko-feed.bb

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-05-30 Thread Rod Whitby
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

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-05-30 Thread Gilles Casse
Hello, Having an official packages repository is excellent. It is not enough though: openness to external contributions, possible reactivity are welcomed too, otherwise the repository would tend to a sanctuary. Gilles ___ Openmoko community mailing

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-05-30 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Pranav Desai wrote: | On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The usual way is to add the package to OpenEmbedded, and then add | it's name

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-05-30 Thread Jay Vaughan
I thought the Openmoko developer community would want to better than that ... Whats missing IMHO is a Repository Leadership clique, wherein a known group of people are responsible for some nice repositories that end-users might find interesting .. If I could easily add a few sites to

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-05-30 Thread George Brooke
How about a system like launchpad's PPA (Personal Package Archive) which allows developers to have their packages built automatically for all versions of ubuntu. This could have access to all of the libraries available through OE and any that you build your self - avoiding dependency problems in

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-05-29 Thread Pranav Desai
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pranav Desai wrote: But that brings another question (which probably needs another thread), where do we store/host the ported apps if we have some? * Can we put it somewhere on downloads.openmoko.org

Re: Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-05-29 Thread Rod Whitby
Pranav Desai wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The usual way is to add the package to OpenEmbedded, and then add it's name to the task-openmoko-feed.bb http://task-openmoko-feed.bb recipe so that it automatically

Packaging third-party applications (Was: Meta Toolchain Release (2008 May))

2008-05-28 Thread Rod Whitby
Pranav Desai wrote: But that brings another question (which probably needs another thread), where do we store/host the ported apps if we have some? * Can we put it somewhere on downloads.openmoko.org http://downloads.openmoko.org * Should we create another project on project.openmoko.org