[maemo-developers] How to optify in MADDE?

[From: Tim Teulings]

Hallo!

>   Then why we went to maemo-optify path instead of modifying Debian  
> build tools?
>   I know it was a huge thread about optification, I didn't dare to read it.
>   Neither want to start it again :)


Location of application files is not only defined by the packaging  
mechanism. Part of the locations are defined by the software at  
buildtime (partly configure options), some may be hardcoded. In  
general one cannot be sure that after apckaging moves around files the  
application can find all of its files.

Optification was a very late "feature" and getting software to run on  
the device quickly was a goal while SDK or device modification were  
not possible in that short time frame. So a solution was created that  
may not require the active support of the developer, by mobinf files  
and at the same time creating links from the old to the new location  
hiding the movement from the application.

-- 
Gruß...
    Tim