[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Taste the Herring!

[From: Carlos Guerreiro]

Hi Klassjan,
> On 11/30/06, *Carlos Guerreiro* <carlos.guerreiro at nokia.com 
> <mailto:carlos.guerreiro at nokia.com>> wrote:
>
>     The Hildon Application Framework that is being polished in Herring
>     will
>     be used in the next major 3.0 release of Maemo which will be
>     called Bora.
>     By porting your application to Herring and testing it in the Herring
>     environment you can cover a lot the ground to port it to Bora.
>
>
> Since you state applications have to be "ported" to Maemo 3, will 
> Maemo 3 be backward compatible with Maemo 2.x applications?
>
No. The gap is not large but it is non-trivial. However, some simple 
applications will work unmodified.
We are working on documenting the changes and on a porting guide. Stay 
tuned.