[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <Kimmo.Hamalainen at nokia.com>
writes:

> On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:44 +0200, Vollmer Marius (Nokia-D/Helsinki)
> wrote:
>> "Hamalainen Kimmo (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <Kimmo.Hamalainen at nokia.com>
>> writes:
>> 
>> > What prevents the community from releasing this "unstable" libhildon
>> > before Nokia does the "stable" release?
>> 
>> The unstable release would not be of much use since people can not
>> easily install it on their devices.
>
> I don't understand, wouldn't the forked/new widget library also have
> this same problem?

No, since it would have a different name.

Anyway, I realize I have been too negative about all this.  With some
care, 'forking' libhildon and distributing it via Maemo Extras should be
perfectly doable.

'Forking' means using a different package name for everything (source,
binary, -dev, etc), and I put it in quotes since it would be done by the
original libhildon maintainers.