[maemo-developers] Keeping Glib up to date (was RE: Diablo, do we need a separate repository?)

[From: Fred Labrosse]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Graham Cobb wrote:
>
> To take a real example, I previously supported Opensync on mistral,
> gregale, bora and chinook.  I have already abandonned support for all
> except chinook because it was too much effort to deal with the old glib
> versions.  For the moment I persevere with chinook, patching Opensync to
> make it work with 2.12.12.  One day even that will become too hard, at
> which time Opensync on Maemo will die unless Maemo includes an up to date
> glib.

And given that GPE apps and opensync are *SO OBVIOUSLY MISSING* (I can't 
stress that enough ;-) on the tablet, everything that can help that is 
important.

>
> I am hopeful that Nokia believes it is in Nokia's interest to provide some
> level of support for the community.  That should include not frustrating
> community efforts to port software.  If Nokia really want to stay on an old
> version of glib (or any other library) they should take the hit of creating
> their own libraries, not the community (which is why I suggested
> nokiaglib).

I love the tablet because of its openness, because it allows me to develop the 
very specific applications I need for my work on a small device.  However, 
and I'm not the only one thinking that given what is written on the various 
forum on the subject, there are many missing applications in the default OS 
(without talking about the general look-and-feel), and without the community 
(I'm not including myself in that), the tablet might not have the success it 
has.

Fred

P.S.  Sorry for not contributing anything else than a rant ;-)