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

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On 8/29/06, Hugh Warrington <hjmw2 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Andrew Flegg wrote:
>
[Getting scratchbox running]
>
> > It was just a long and labourious process. The `installer' script
> > made it trivial the second time I did it, so much so I wonder why
> > this isn't advertised more as a recommended and supported way of
> > installing?
>
> I didn't find copy-pasting ten or twenty lines of clear instructions
> into a terminal window very taxing. In fact, as cross-compilation goes,
> setting up and working within the recommended maemo environment is a
> breeze.

I didn't say it was hard, just not simple. Why should I need to spend
time downloading this, installing that, copying this rootstrap etc?

Surely you can't be arguing that despite the installer script
existing, users should be confronted with a twenty step process to get
the SDK up and running, when it could be just one?

Cheers,

Andrew

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