[maemo-developers] Autobuilder for OS2006 wanted?

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Tuesday 05 August 2008 09:58:45 Niels Breet wrote:
> With this mail, I want to ask the community if there is interest in having
> an autobuilder for OS2006.

Good question.  One issue is that I currently, deliberately, build my OS2006 
support against the 3.0 SDK so that it will run on any 3.x release.  I 
presume you would plan to build against 3.2 -- how many 770 users would then 
be unable to install it?  The sort of people who haven't replaced their 770 
with an N8x0 and who haven't moved to OS2007HE are probably also the sort of 
people who haven't upgraded the tablet from whatever was installed when they 
bought it.

> Although the download numbers for OS2006 aren't as high as the recent OS
> versions, we (maemo.org community) haven't stopped supporting the OS. 770
> users might benefit from this.

My current plan is that the GPE release currently in beta test will be the 
last for gregale.  I will probably support bora (OS2007HE) for a little 
longer so there is at least some route for 770 owners to move to the latest 
if they want.

I do not support my other packages (mainly opensync and Xsisusb) on anything 
earlier than chinook.

> Are there developers out there who will use the autobuilder for OS2006, if
> it is available? 

I probably would, at least for this last GPE OS2006 release (I haven't even 
built the beta for gregale yet due to problems in my build environment).

> Do you think it is worth the trouble to set it up? 

Not sure.  As I say, I would probably use it twice: once to build the beta and 
once to build the release.  I certainly wouldn't support using it the same 
way we did for diablo (i.e. **everything** has to be rebuilt) -- it would 
need to work like the chinook one so that existing packages can just be used.

> Will  
> it make supporting OS2006 easier for developers?

Easier... yes.  But personally I don't plan on supporting OS2006 much longer.

> Please let me know what you think.

How about an OS2007HE autobuilder?  I plan on supporting that, as the last 
option for 770 owners, a bit longer.

Graham