[maemo-developers] Considering /opt and MyDocs in your packages

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

We developers already maintain different packages for different Maemo versions,
at least Maemo 4 and Maemo 5 as there are too many differences.

A Diablo/Chinook/Bora/Gregale package etc won't include this /opt
packaging idea (that, indeed, I like).

The Fremantle package can be totally different and it's only a matter
of changing the destinations of the application files.

At least my application will packaged differently for Chinook/Diablo
and Fremantle.

Aniello

2009/9/9 Matan Ziv-Av <matan at svgalib.org>:
> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, David Greaves wrote:
>
>> Matan Ziv-Av wrote:
>>> On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Andrew Flegg wrote:
>>>>   * Use of /opt is perhaps now a QA requirement for Extras
>>>>   * Can we somehow add a /opt check into minimae/maemian? Is it
>>>>     possible, and is it sensible?
>>>
>>> Please recall that maemo5 is not the only maemo. Maemo4 is the latest
>>> availble for N800/N810 and maemo2 is the latest officailly available on
>>> 770. Many packages can compile from same source for all versions. Don't
>>> add artificial obstacles to force developers to make their packages
>>> incompatible with older versions.
>>
>> *cough*   Mer    *cough*
>
> Call me when Mer is a reasonable replacement for OS2008 on N810. Until
> then, please don't try to fragment the community for no reason except for
> planned obsolescence. If you are going to use symlinks anyway, let the
> package installer make them, so the same package can be used for various
> system.
>
> A lot of packages available for maemo are merely debian/ubuntu packages
> built in maemo environment. This /opt idea will reduce the amount of
> software available for maemo5 devices.
>
>
> --
> Matan.
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