[maemo-developers] Why should I write apps for Maemo?

[From: tero.kojo at nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-developers-
> bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of ext Nicola Mfb
> Sent: 07 May, 2010 11:34
> To: Andrea Grandi
> Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Subject: Re: Why should I write apps for Maemo?
> 
> On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Andrea Grandi <a.grandi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> [...]
> > I was wondering the same thing: why is it so hard to provide a 1.1.2
> > image with Qt 4.6.2 installed?

Hindsight 20/20. Back when 1.2 was first considered Qt 4.6 was in alpha or beta. Beta software does not go into a pr release.
Later on when 4.6 got final it might have made sense, but as Eero said, the release is based on quality and not calendar. And the 1.2 tree had moved forward a lot in that time.

> +1
> 
> If PR 1.2 has too many problems to be released before *few* days,
> please release a 1.1.2 with the updated qt, actually having skype
> videocalls or other few things is secondary for the long term success
> of your strategy.

Because it would have to be tested to the same extent as the 1.2 image. And that is not a few days.

Look, the N900 is a consumer electronics device. That means that normal people, like your mother, the guy you passed on the street and the person drinking coffee in a cafe use it. Those people cannot handle crashes and bad quality. It really is that simple.

Tero

> I think you have all the interest to have a community of qt developers
> around the n900/maemo that may be already mature when symbian v3/meego
> will be available, delaying that process further may be very
> dangerous.
> 
> Regards
> 
>       Niko
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