Neil Jerram <[email protected]> writes:
> Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Am Samstag 02 Oktober 2010, 23:24:19 schrieb Ben Thompson:
>>> As I understand it from reading this mailing list, the move was due to
>>> the fact that Illume is unmaintained [1], and the new Illume 2 is
>>> modular in design (which I guess means that it is easier to
>>> develop/maintain) [2].
>>
>> Yes, that's the reason. And additionally it was unbuildable for some time
>> because it got disabled in the source.
>> You can ask now why we had to upgrade E to a newer revision? That's because
>> there are so many bugs in illume, like the focus bug for the keyboard, that
>> we
>> had to upgrade to fix those.
>
> Hmm. Well, I accept that such decisions are not straightforward. But I
> suspect that the work involved in maintaining the old Illume, and fixing
> the occasional bug, so far as needed by SHR, might be a lot less than
> that in always following the E bleeding edge.
>
> Well, in order to test my suspicion in a concrete way, I'll see if I can
> fix the focus bug with Illume 1 and then build a new image. I'll report
> back...
For the record... I was just going to follow up to this, when I saw Tim
Abell's new thread, and I've put my main thoughts there instead. As
far as this thread is concerned, the summary of the "report back" is
that I haven't yet been able to recreate a setup that successfully
builds something similar to what I have running on my phone.
Regards,
Neil
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