[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] mistral or scirocco?

[From: Aaron Levinson]

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:56:49AM -0800, Aaron Levinson wrote:
> > But my main question is, if we build our package with the scirocco/2.1 
> > SDK, in which distribution on the extras repository should we place the 
> > package, mistral or scirocco?  Considering that the scirocco distribution 
> > is not published, I would guess the mistral distribution is correct, but 
> > will packages built with the 2.1 SDK work on an IT2006 mistral platform?
> 
> I have found at least one package that does not work on mistral
> (2006.1): NFlick 0.3.0 requires hildon-libs0 >= 0.12.22-1, but mistral
> has only 0.12.20-1.  I assume it was build on scirocco.
> 
> http://groups-beta.google.com/group/nflick/browse_thread/thread/5b60c21022270e2a

It is likely that this package doesn't actually "need" the newer version
of hildon-libs, given that there were no changes to the APIs exported by
hildon-libs according to the 2.1 release notes.  As far as I can tell, the
main difference between 2.1 and 2.0, from a programming perspective, is
the addition of the libosso-abook APIs (the use of which might require an
IT2006 2.1 installation) and perhaps things having to do with implementing
a custom connection manager (which is a new document for 2.1).  There is
also an oss-dsp-modules-su-18-maemo package, but I'm not sure if this
introduces new programming facilities.

But, it would be nice to get some confirmation from someone at Nokia 
regarding this and whether or not packages built with the 2.1 SDK are 
compatible with 2.0 installations (as a general rule).

Aaron