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

[From: Matan Ziv-Av]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:

> 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.

GUI applications might have big differences. Command line applications 
probably don't have any. Python apps might not need changes to work on 
both OS2008 and Fremantle.


-- 
Matan.