[maemo-developers] Mer Development Update

[From: Jeremiah Foster]

On Jun 18, 2009, at 13:17, David Greaves wrote:

> Hi
>
> I realise that we spend a lot of time on irc and it may be worth  
> mentioning some
> things on email.

Although I hang out a bit with you guys on IRC, I think mailing this  
list is a good idea, thanks.

>
> First off - please ask if there are any Mer questions... I'll do my  
> best to answer.
>
> I've updated pages around here recently:
>  http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Build
>
> There is a step-by-step guide to installing OBS[1] and building a gtk
> application to run on mer (merpad!)
>
> We're talking about getting apps submitted to the garage autobuilder  
> to also be
> submitted to Mer too.

That would be kinda cool. Any talk about a single place to see build  
results? I.e. if there are results from mer and maemo in one log  
instead of two developers might prefer that than having to jump to  
another place to read logs.

>
> If anyone is *really* interested there is some work we're doing to  
> try and use
> DVCS in the packaging process too. It looks really complex at first  
> sight but
> actually it's fairly simple - there's often just a lot of it. Ask if  
> you're
> interested :)

I have followed some of the discussion around that process, if I'm not  
mistaken Martin Krafft from debian fame started this. I wonder if you  
guys have a document describing the process as used inside mer, if so  
I'd like to read it. I think there is room for lots of innovation here.
>
> I am planning on developing an 'SDK' which is essentially a well- 
> populated OBS
> chroot.
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Build/Install_OBS
> [2] http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Build/Application_Building
>

Thanks David!

Jeremiah