[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Fake IAP connection or how to use local web applications

[From: Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

On 2/1/07, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:22:11PM +0100, william maddler wrote:
> > Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > >
> > > Write an alternative configuration tool that doesn't require networking.
> > >
> > > You do store configuration values in gconf, right?
> >
> > Yep, the point is that looks like Dummy is not accepted as connection
> > type. So you are supposed to enable wi-fi if you wish to connect to
> > 127.0.0.1.
>
> Which is why I suggested writing a configuration tool that does not try
> to connect to 127.0.0.1. ;)

Ouch, this is insane... in order to support at least MacOSX, Windows
and Linux (Qt and Gtk) you need 4 different GUI toolkits, if you want
to support 3 platforms (PPC, x86, ARM) you need 4 x 3 = 12  binaries
to test. Ok, you could have python or other platform independent core,
but GUI would still be the same trouble, so 4 binaries to test.

And all of this is local access.. but how to let you configure
770/n800 from PC? plug usb and you loose mmc, wifi would still require
a daemon...

As willian said, the problem still remain... we're fixing the problem
in the wrong area.

Maemo is broken: it traps "socket()" calls instead of "connect()", why?

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