[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] garage/extras repository for bora?

[From: Ferenc Szekely]

Hello,

On 1/9/07, Levi Bard <taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When can we expect to have a new garage/extras repository for bora (and
> > instructions for posting a package to this repository)?  Some of the
> > applications at the extras mistral repository may not work on bora, and it
> > would be nice to have a separate repository for applications that are
> > known to work on bora (or at least are supposed to work on bora).
>
> Seconded.  It would also give a good way to branch apps that have to
> be code-nonidentical for the two releases (e.g. xv vs xsp pixel
> doubling) without silly package name hacks.
>
I wish I know when we can offer extras for receiving your apps for
bora. Some of us at nokia had an idea to setup a automated build
system which accepts source uploads only and delivers the binaries for
all our releases (mistral, scirocco, bora, etc).
For some reason we need to clarify thousand+1 things (mainly legal)
before we can offer such service. I had an idea back in December that
maybe maemo could finally co-operate with OpenEmbedded and see if we
could get the extras packages from their build system. It should be
technically possible. I promised to send a mail to Koen and Florian about this
"trial", but never got there yet. Perhaps this could kick off the
discussion here, on the maemo dev list.

Cheers,
ferenc