[maemo-developers] extras packages for sardine

[From: quim.gil at nokia.com]

Hi Murray,

We will have a more solid answer to this question in few weeks, around
GUADEC time. We are still working on some plans and feasibility analysis
to see how can we help best developers having their applications ready
when a new release comes. 

In the meantime let me say that we are planning to release an early
alpha SDK for Chinook plus a proper beta. The alpha's core mission will
be to stress the API changes so developers can see where and how their
Bora applications break. It won't be ready for real porting/developing
yet, hence the alpha tag. Proper porting and developing work should be
feasible later on when we realease the beta SDK.

Of course Sardine is currently a good channel to follow the Chinook
development but it is also limited to a set of APIs (remarkably Hildon,
GTK+ and the desktop related components). We are also thinking of
bringing the current Sardine to a next step.

Quim

>Is this possible yet? Assuming that the sardine repository is 
>the future Maemo Chinook version, I will want to upload and 
>test packages before Maemo Chinook is actually released.
>
>On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 23:18 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
>> Is there any way I can upload extras (previously "contrib", from 
>> garage.maemo.org projects) packages for use with sardine, instead of 
>> just mistral?
>> 
>> This would help us to make sure our packages work with the latest 
>> code, before it is actually released as stable, and help us to adapt 
>> to any changes.