[maemo-developers] How to get a general utility package cross-listed from tools to extras?

[From: Niels Breet]

On Fri, October 17, 2008 12:37, Quim Gil wrote:
>

>
> Eero Tamminen wrote:
>
>> Marius/Quim, any opinion on whether the Nokia provided tools packages
>> should go to extras instead of the SDK/tools repository?
>
> There is this principle of publishing supported software in *.nokia.com
> and have 0 responsibilities on whatever goes to extras.
>

Another possibility would be to put these tools in a repository that is
already on the devices (Tableteer). But that still leaves the problem that
the autobuilder doesn't use this repository, so build-dependencies are
still not satisfied.

> It also makes sense that SDK and related tools are next to each other,
> as Juha pointed out.
>
> But then again, I understand those tools are not something end users and
> even many developers will go and use by themselves, the hassle of needing
> to have them in two repos so extras is self-contained in terms of
> dependencies...
>
> There is also the precedent of ESBox, Pluthon and other software
> developed by Nokia and present in extras because it's not 100% officially
> supported...
>

Most of the sdk/tools tools we talk about are open source tools available
in every linux distribution with very simple dependencies. These don't
have a magic Nokia sauce?

The only exception I see are the sp-* tools.

> So well, if Juha (owner of those tools) would end up seeing more
> benefits than problems we could have these tools in extras. I don't see an
> essential problem in this possibility.
>

Extras will always be aligned with major Maemo releases, if everything is
going the way it is supposed to. So I don't see many SDK incompatibility
issues that can be caused by being in Extras?

Although we might want to talk about uploading newer versions of existing
tools.

> --
> Quim Gil
> marketing manager, open source Maemo Software @ Nokia


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Niels Breet
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