[maemo-developers] Maintenance of ported apps

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 4:57 AM,  <maemo at bitblit.net> wrote:

> Im very interested in porting apps to Maemo but I have concerns about the
> long-term maintenance of the apps. Porting a GTK app to Maemo requires
> some significant chznges, so what happens when a newer version of the GTK
> app appears? Will in need to be ported 'again'? Should changes for Maemo
> be merged back upstream? If so, Im assuming there are compiler flags that
> can be used for preprocessing code for Maemo and non-Maemo platforms?

You can use a build time option for that, e.g. check out configure.ac
in modest (apt-get source modest). It just expects
--with-platform=maemo for ./configure invocation.

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Ville M. Vainio
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