[maemo-developers] PPA's?

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Kees Jongenburger
<kees.jongenburger at gmail.com> wrote:

> negative votes. The Maemo community has put a great effort in removing
> all the external repositories that where "alive or dead" on different
> sites so I guess we are a little afraid :p. One of the biggest
> problems besides chaos  was the question if you can trust code that is
> not compiled on a "independent" system. I would like to use something
> like PPA to be able to select apps I want to install on my N900 when
> using my PC but ssh works pretty well :p

With Ubuntu PPA system, it's the ubuntu servers that build the
packages, which guarantees that sources are always available. So it
would be much like the extras-devel system we have now, with the
difference that it's not an all-or-nothing scenario.

Of course packages that reside in PPA's would eventually gravitate to
extras-testing and extras, but with PPA's there would be no "rush"
with the process, as developers could distribute their apps
independently for a long time.

I find it hard to see anything "wrong" with PPA's as such, but I
understand getting the system deployed involves real server admin
work.

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Ville M. Vainio
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