[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] RE: Nokia 770 sources...

[From: Alessandro Ikeuchi]

Ok, lets kick the dog:
- try to compile with SDK_PC, then with SDK_ARMEL, well, you'll never compile again in SDK_PC...
- RAD?? Are you crazy??? Even the basic C API doesn't work at all... Unicode is a mistery for me after dozens of days searching...
- the best feature of my Nokia is the console xTerminal...
- Maemo docs are band-aid over a femural bleeding
- the best apps ported to Nokia are console based or X based... Hildon based are tragic accidents.
- Java doesn´t even fit in tiny 128mb... We should mount and use as root our 1gb sd cards and liberate the rest of the memory for RAM. When "Linux from scratch" fits for Nokia, bye bye OS2006...
- Even for a normal user the basic programs that are blunded with OS2006 are too much buggy, the community ones are truly russian roulettes.
- From 5 questions the developers list evolves more 6, all without answers (where I apply to be nokia employee? I just wanna a fast look in the sources to solve my dead keys problems, after that I quit)

- I AM REALLY TIRED FROM PEOPLE SAYING ABOUT "THE NEXT FEATURES" WHEN EVEN THE NOWADAYS FEATURES DOESN'T WORK, C'MON PEOPLE, GET REAL, HELP US TO PRESSURE MAEMO TO REALLY AID PROGRAMMERS, BECAUSE PORT APPS TODAY IS A NIGHTMARE AND FRUSTRATING TASK.

- DID YOU EVER SAW A LINUX DISTRIBUTION ASKS FOR SOME KIND OF SERIAL TO AUTHORIZE THE DOWNLOAD? I NEVER... BUY A WINDOWS XP MACHINE INSTEAD, IT LACKS FREEDOM AS MUCH AS OS2006, AND YOU WON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH SCRATCHBOX (very good name, I scratched a lot...) AND ROOTSTRAPS.

-MAEMO WON'T DESERVE TIME OR ANY KIND OF EFFORTS FROM OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT'S NOT OPEN, HARDLY A GOOD DEVELOPER COMMUNITY WILL EVOLVE AROUND IT. REMEMBER THAT WHEN BUYING NOKIA 770, THIS MEANS (much) LESS APPS PORTS.

Alessandro - Frustrated owner of a Nokia 770 since june/06, retired Maemo amateur developer (two weeks trying to understand where hildon and GTK works), and unsuccessful user that only wanted dead keys for bluetooth keyboard (ah, the stowaway bluetooth keyboard is just great, pays for each cent)

-----Original Message-----
From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of Christian Pernegger
Sent: segunda-feira, 28 de agosto de 2006 17:56
To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
Cc: Shae Matijs Erisson
Subject: Re: [maemo-developers] RE: Nokia 770 sources...


> I am just telling some truths that others should know.

I'm with you insofar as
- setting up the developent environment was a bitch
- it still doesn't give you the same environment as a real 770 apparently
- C++ plus custom framework doesn't exactly lend itself to RAD, maybe a scripting language (python, ruby, whatever) or even Java would have been a better choice. A lot of people, me included, don't have a clue about cross-compiling or embedded development.

C.
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