[maemo-developers] Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras

[From: Michael Cronenworth]

Dave Neary on 02/24/2010 10:01 AM wrote:
> 1. New uploads get compiled with the new SDK, and get downloaded onto
> phones with the old OS, where they don't work.

How? The only way that could happen is if a power-user downloaded the 
file manually and attempted to use dpkg manually. This should be frowned 
upon.

>
> 2. Developers working with the old SDK upload applications which don't
> even build with the new SDK

The auto-builder builds our apps. Their builds would fail and never make 
it to Extras.

>
> 3. To mitigate 2, we decide that all Extras apps need to be recompiled
> with the new SDK, resulting in a number of applications which fit into
> both the categories above - some apps stop working until the user
> upgrades the firmware, other apps don't build&  require changes and an
> SDK upgrade from the developer.
>

It happens all the time in other Linux distributions. Fedora just went 
through the Qt4.5 to 4.6 transition itself! I don't see why there is 
resistance to this when it is a very minor change. If such resistance is 
warranted, let's call this Maemo 5.2 instead of Maemo 5.