[maemo-developers] Survey about Maemo porting problems

[From: Carsten Valdemar Munk]

So, as part of my continuing research for the Maemo Reconstructed  
proposal (http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Reconstructed), I would like to  
ask some questions to the subset of developers on this mailing list  
who deals with trying to port applications/software to Maemo.

Normally what I read, is announcements about applications that -has-  
been ported, but what I'm really interested in, is hearing about the  
applications you had to give up on getting ported to the Maemo  
platform after doing an honest effort, and why you had to give up.

It is my hope that this survey will highlight ways to help make Maemo  
a better platform for developers and easier to port to.

So, questionaire:

* What application/software did you want to port to Maemo?
* What did you try to port it based on? (Ubuntu/Debian source package,  
tar.gz, svn, ..etc.)
* What was the show-stopper(s) that made you give up on trying to port  
this application to Maemo?
* If you know, what would be the fixes to be made, for these  
show-stoppers if they were to be fixed in the Maemo platform?

/Carsten Munk