[maemo-developers] rpm vs. deb and "universal binaries/packages"

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:17, Christopher Intemann <intemann at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:46, Christopher Intemann <intemann at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Of course, this would probably double the size of the rpm/deb, [...]
>>
>> ...and so the download.
>
> Yes, that's true, but since we're talking about mobile devices with
> limited hardware, the apps are usually not that big anyways. I was just
> thinking that the benefit would outbalance the size issue, at least as
> long as we're talking about download sizes of one or two megabyte.

Qt 4.6 and Python are *both* above the 30MB mark.

> Sure, but is there a recent i386 port of Maemo at all? :-)

Err, anyone who uses Scratchbox and develops on their PC rather than
the device is running i386 Maemo.

Cheers,

Andrew

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