[maemo-developers] Optification in MADDE, again

[From: Martin Storsjö]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Tomi Ollila wrote:

> On Fri 02 Jul 2010 14:28, Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Tomi Ollila wrote:
> >
> >> 
> >> There is a reason for that: Windows (below 7) (NTFS) filesystem does not
> >> regognize symbolic links (properly); Generally, any software packakeable
> >> with MADDE on linux should be also packaeable on Windows too...
> >
> > Yes, that's true, but even in that case, I think the deb packaging scripts 
> > should support symlinks, if I'd happen to run MADDE on a system that 
> > supports them. This is achieved with the patch I attached.
> >
> > This also makes the MADDE dpkg build system compatible with normal dpkg 
> > build systems for packages that themselves create symlinks, but would of 
> > course only work on MADDE on those platforms that support symlinks.
> >
> > What's the correct way of submitting this as a patch to 
> > http://meego.gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/madde? I attached it as 
> > an git am'able patch here, too.
> 
> Well, partial solutions can be committed to anywhere but will not be
> included in our MADDE releases. For consistency and support reasons we will
> use the least common denominator principle (or whatever :) in the features

Ok, thanks for clarifying, then I'll stop trying to push for this kind of 
features. A proper, cross-platform solution, that is compatible with the 
original native build scripts, would of course be well appreciated. 
(Having to use a different tool for creating links depending on if 
building within MADDE or in a real environment would be problematic.)

Until then, I guess I just have to cope with building packages without 
symlinks.

// Martin