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.)

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