[maemo-developers] openSUSE Online Build System

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Feb 16, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Quim Gil wrote:

> Hi, any experiences and opinions about
>
> Build maemo-apps with openSUSE BuildService ? - It works !
> http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/01/27/build-maemo-apps-with-opensuse-buildservice-it-works/
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/
>
> I met the developers at FOSDEM and it looks like an interesting & well
> thought service.

This is a very cool idea. It doesn't yet support maemo though, perhaps  
we can have a Summer of Code project with them to fully support maemo  
package builds. It also does not seem to provide source code when you  
build a package, not a big deal since presumably you have the source  
code yourself, but others will not get the source. It also has limited  
architecture support, though it does support common architectures.

It does not support dh-make-perl which is too bad because debian uses  
a lot of perl tools as essential base packages.

All in all, definitely a project to watch.

Jeremiah