[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] extras repository

[From: Carlos Guerreiro]

>>  Scirocco will have a separate
>> extras and sardine and perhaps herring will get one too.
>> This would require more work from the developers, or from the package
>> maintainers. They need to recompile their applications and upload them
>> to separate places. 
>>     
>
> I don't see how anything else can possibly work.
>
> But there must be some tools to automatically build packages out there.y
> I don't believe that Ubuntu or Debian maintainers personally build their
> packages for all versions (Ubuntu breezy, dapper, edgy, feisty), and all
> architectures (i386, PPC, etc).
>
>   
Yeah. That's the way to go: proper archive management with something 
like DAK
(we'll look into that at least for sardine and herring once there's some 
time) and a
build system to go with it.
That will take a bit of time.
However, there is something we could try now.
Adding the Maemo C++ bindings to Sardine itself in "trial mode". If it 
does well
it could end up in Maemo itself.
One question: Which version of gtk-- to use and where to get it from 
(packaged)?