[maemo-developers] SDK packages in extras (was Re: chinook)

[From: Quim Gil]

Hi, sorry but I had overlooked this one (please use maemo-developers for
anything concerning development)

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 21:24 +0300, ext Marius Gedminas wrote:
> Can we get all the useful packages (things like libraries and python
> 2.5) that are currently available only in the SDK repository copied to
> the extras repository?

The SDK repository contains software officially supported by Nokia,
extras contains software provided by the community with no official
support from Nokia. It makes sense not to have ambivalence, nor
duplication.


>   Today people have problems installing packages
> like kagu that live in extras but depend on packages from the SDK repo
> (python2.5-pygame, IIRC).

I don't know the issues with this specific package. In principle Python
2.5 packages are in extras and not in the SDK repository. 

Also in principle, no developer should rely on dependencies on packages
in the SDK repository for their software for end users. End users
shouldn't need to have the SDK repository in their sources.

If a developer is contributing a package to extras with dependencies to
packages not available in the device or the official repositories, she
could always upload the dependent packages to extras as well.

Or what is the issue?

In any case, Chinook's install files will provide more flexibility
allowing developers to point to more than one repository for retrieving
dependencies.

-- 
Quim Gil - http://maemo.org