[maemo-developers] Raemo on-device testing tool first public release

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Jami Pekkanen wrote:
> I'm pleased to announce that Raemo 0.80 Beta is now released. Raemo
> (Remote Application Execution for Maemo Os) is a tool that eases
> on-device testing. Here's some of the release's features:
> 
> * Persistent remote sessions, so for example working directory is stored
> across calls
> * Session tracking which allows for example running different remote
> shell instances from different TTYs
> * Mounting the remote device's file system and running applications
> inside the mount with automatic path resolving
> * Remote device's screen can be imported to the desktop computer to ease
> GUI program testing
> * Object oriented server-client architecture which supports easily
> adding new services and different backends in any programming language
> supporting D-Bus
> * Requires only a SSH server and optionally VNC running on the target
> device
> * Configuration files for easy startup

Does this relate somehow to the sbrsh[1] which allows running Scratchbox
foreign binaries which are in actuality transparently executed on
a device with a different CPU over the network?  Sbrsh supports even
fakeroot over NFS mounts, transports environment variables, ulimits,
return values etc.

Sbrsh is used in the situations where Qemu doesn't emulate the target
hardware well enough, but as it's mainly a build tool, it doesn't
do any UI exporting back from the device to the PC.


[1] 
http://www.scratchbox.org/download/files/sbox-releases/0.9.8/doc/devicetools.html
http://www.scratchbox.org/documentation/user/scratchbox-1.0/html/sbrsh.html


	- Eero