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

[From: Henri Sivonen]

On Aug 29, 2006, at 12:22, Kuosmanen Tuomas (Nokia-M/Helsinki) wrote:

> The fact that the
> environment uses its own gtk (while a lot of stuff is being pushed
> upstream) - this forces you to use a chroot environment. While
> scratchbox does a lot of things for you to make things less nasty,  
> it's
> a whole new thing to learn for the most of us. And it's far from  
> trivial
> anyway.

Is GTK from Maemo expected to compile (for the host itself) on  
desktop Linux or Mac OS X? What about Hildon?

How much work would be required for making Python development  
possible on any *nix style platform with an X server by compiling GTK  
and Hildon and their Python wrappers for the hosting architecture and  
installing them in a non-conventional directory prefix to prevent  
conflicts with the usual GTK installation?

(BTW, it would be nice if the source download page documented the  
right svn incantations for pulling the source corresponding to the  
OS2006 release.)

-- 
Henri Sivonen
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