[maemo-developers] Ideas for Diablo and Elephanta

[From: Mike Lococo]

Graham Cobb wrote:
> On Monday 24 September 2007 05:14, Quim Gil wrote:
>> Hi, until now we have gathered some ideas about *platform* improvements,
>> but nothing about the *developer platform* itself: are you totally happy
>> about the SDK and the developer tools? Enhancement proposals for
>> repositories, documentation, maemo.org, etc, are welcome as well.
> 
> One area I find the SDK lacking is support for packaging and releasing.
> 
> I have spent a LOT of time on working out how best to build and test packages 
> for GPE.  My goal is to support all the releases people are likely to have 
> installed and all the devices.

I think it's also notable that most packagers don't even attempt this 
kind of methodical support for each release.  I'm not sure if the place 
to fix this is in the SDK or in a proper build system for garage and the 
official maemo repository (since after the packages are built 
consistently the next step is to get them into the hands of users in a 
consistent way).  The lack of an easy way to consistently build packages 
for all the flavors of maemo in the wild is definitely hurting the 
platform, though.

Thanks,
Mike Lococo