[maemo-developers] Reviewing beginner packaging docs

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:

> So - your advice to someone looking to package a Hildon application for
> Fremantle would be to rewrite it as a Qt app? Or will qdebwiz also work
> with Hildon apps?

Nope, qdebwiz is only for simple Qt + qmake apps (I made it for
personal use, really). I wasn't even thinking Hildon application
authors would have trouble packaging; new developers (the ones that
need guidance the most) are expected to use Qt, or have a good reason
not to use Qt. Also, all the existing Hildon applications are probably
packaged already.

> Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, and you're suggesting that
> developers should use whatever method is appropriate for the upstream
> build tools, and then handle the packaging afterwards? (which seems like
> sensible advice).

Actually, I wasn't even considering the option that "upstream" could
be someone apart from the packager. That's not the beginner usecase -
it's something for a separate porting guide (outlining what you need
to change when porting stuff from debian/ubuntu).

We don't really want to create the illusion that it's ok for a
beginner to create a project using autotools/cmake and expect
everything to work - we would be doing them a disservice. It was ok in
the early days of maemo5, but nowadays things we push should work with
MADDE and Nokia Qt SDK as well.

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Ville M. Vainio @@ Forum Nokia