[maemo-users] twitter-inkface for n810

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

It helps indeed, if I am not the only one who reads your words. :)
Thank you very much for you insight!

Of course my words were not an attack, I really wanted to know why people
may decide it's better to go that way instead of going on the one paved by
Maemo.

Aniello

2009/1/10 Jayesh Salvi <jayeshsalvi at gmail.com>

> Hi Aniello,
>
> My separate repository is not a permanent solution. I just wanted to give
> users a more intuitive way to install multiple inter-dependent packages
> without having to fiddle with dpkg CLI commands.
>
> I did give a try to uploading my packages to maemo-extras. I got the
> permissions and went halfway through the steps, after which I got the
> impression that the procedure needed autotools build system for the package.
> One of my packages uses SCons instead of autotools. My impression might be
> wrong, but I decided to postpone that investigation for a future release.
> And I fortunately got a way to setup a makeshift repo.
>
> I know the advantages to the users if I use maemo-extras repo, instead of a
> private one-off. But until I get there, I wanted to push off a long-overdue
> app to the users and gather some feedback.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Thanks,
> Jayesh
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> may I ask you the rationale behind your choice to use your own repository
>> instead of using the devel-extras repository ?
>>
>> Aniello
>>
>> 2009/1/10 Jayesh Salvi <jayeshsalvi at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just finished the Twitter client for n810 - using SVG based GUI library
>>> (Inkface). You can check out the demo video here<http://blip.tv/file/1654627>
>>> .
>>>
>>> You can try out the client yourself:
>>>
>>> In the Maemo Application Manager, add following Catalog:
>>>
>>> Name: Altcanvas
>>> Web Address: http://repo.altcanvas.com
>>> Distribution: testing
>>> Components: main
>>>
>>> Refresh the application list. You should see 'twitter-inkface' app in
>>> the list. All the dependencies will be automatically pulled from the repo.
>>>
>>> In case you hit any problem with the repository (because it's my
>>> non-standard implementation of a debian repo :), you can download following
>>> four .deb files and install them "dpkg -i *.deb".
>>>
>>> libaltsvg<http://altcanvas.googlecode.com/files/libaltsvg_0.1.2_armel.deb>
>>> ,inkface-python<http://altcanvas.googlecode.com/files/inkface-python_0.1.2_armel.deb>,
>>> inklib <http://altcanvas.googlecode.com/files/inklib_0.1.0.deb>,
>>> twitter-inkface<http://altcanvas.googlecode.com/files/twitter-inkface_0.1.0.deb>
>>> .
>>>
>>> With this milestone, inkface libraries reach a v0.1.2. To know more about
>>> Inkface project, visit the project page<http://code.google.com/p/altcanvas/wiki/InkFace>
>>> .
>>>
>>> Feedback is appreciated!!!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jayesh
>>> blog <http://jyro.blogspot.com/> | twit <http://twitter.com/jyro> | code<http://code.google.com/p/altcanvas/>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> maemo-users mailing list
>>> maemo-users at maemo.org
>>> https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> anidel
>>
>
>


-- 
anidel
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20090110/7e799ba4/attachment.htm