[maemo-developers] Curious: Maemo devices other than Nokia?

[From: Tollef Fog Heen]

* Tapani Pälli 

| ext Guillem Jover wrote:
| > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 13:49:19 +0200, ext Tapani Pälli wrote:
| >   
| >> What's the problem? Why we could not have our own custom functionality
| >> in our Gtk+ tree?
| >
| > Huh? Because that's just wrong, it's a layering violation as Riku
| > said, and because we are extending the API in an uncoordinated way
| > with upstream. Reminds me of embrace and extend...
| 
| Well, I guess there could be times when a distribution needs to extend
| package functionality with own patches. It can be done in coordinated way.

Yes, the coordinated way is to get it upstream or at least upstream
agreeing to such an API change.  Extending somebody else's API without
permission and without changing the soname is, IMNSHO, quite rude.

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Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are