On Thu, 13 May 2010 09:28:10 +1200 Robin Paulson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11 May 2010 18:19, Martin Jansa <[email protected]> wrote: > >> failing that, what are the reasons for choosing whatever is the base > >> OS (is it Angstrom still) as a core for shr? were there any specific > >> reasons which prohibited a more modern distro? > > > > There is no such thing as base OS = Angstrom. OE provides metadata for > > all sorts of apps/libs and distro maintainers picks/adds whatever we > > need. But yes we're pretty close to Angstrom with our needs (mostly > > because Angstrom is one of best maintained distros in OE). > > > > If you need newer gphoto + deps, try to check how bitbake recipe in OE > > looks (sometimes recipe for newer version is just cp and checksum > > update) and send us a git patch: > > http://wiki.shr-project.org/trac/wiki/Howto%20get%20my%20application%20in%20the%20SHR%20feed I usually find it very hard and time consuming just getting the initial OE build system up and running... I might just be a clueless noob, but I usually get stuck at some random point in the process. Last time I did not even get past "make setup" before the first error. Of course it does not help, that I'm an casual developer, spending half an hour here and there. > > > > Or try to motivate one of SHR/OE maintainer to need newer gphoto (ie > > show your code :)). (It's much harder to test something I'm not > > interested in or/and using it). > > gphoto was a specific app i was interested in using for that one > project, but more generally there are a lot of apps (around 45,000) > that it's be very useful to have access to. i'm not sure i have the > time to send a git patch for all of them > > maybe it's easier to move the mountain to mohammed, and re-package shr > apps for debian Actually some of there are there already. I must admit that at my last attempt at using them they crashed immediately after start up. (I probably need to start some extra "support" service first, but I have not looked into this.) > _______________________________________________ > Shr-User mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user -- Visti Andresen _______________________________________________ Shr-User mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shr-project.org/mailman/listinfo/shr-user
