[maemo-developers] QT Packages, Repositories and PR1.2

[From: ianaré sévi]

Le 22 mai 2010 06:15, Benoît HERVIER <khertan at khertan.net> a écrit :
>>I'll wait a little longer for this to get resolved, but if it takes
>>too long I just might ebay my n900 and go Android.
>
> You can also compile it yourself and create your own repository ...
> easier to manage, and do the trick ... and switch back to the maemo
> repository again when everythings will be fixed.
>

I've already made packages available through the garage, but there are
several problems with doing this :

* No way to promote packages past extras-devel.

* Asking non-technical users to start adding repos should be
discouraged due to security and stability issues. Having a community
reviewed repo is a great thing, if it actually worked as intended.

* I don't want users to have to look through the web to install an
app, it should be listed in the phone's manager.

* Fragmenting apps is a sure way to lose out against iPhone and
Android which do have centralized app managers.

Granted, deployment is not stopped, but going out of our way as
developers to also be package managers is a little silly IMO. Nokia's
expertise as a hardware maker but not a software publisher has been
showing itself lately ...

- ianaré sévi