[maemo-developers] Survey about Maemo porting problems

[From: Kamen Bundev]

The problems usually condense to old GTK+, GLib and no 3D (hardware). At
least for me.

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Carsten Valdemar Munk <cvm at cs.au.dk> wrote:

>
> 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
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