The MokoMakefile is great. I've had it working for months. But I still don't know how I would contribute to OM. There's a wiki page about using the MokoMakefile to edit the existing packages. But I don't think that addresses actually contributing said changes back to OM. Maybe I'm just missing something.
Now I have used the toolchain to make my own little app. But I don't think that's what Jay meant by contributing. -Steven On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Roland Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jay Vaughan, 2008-08-13 14:42:23 +0200 : > >>> Idea of Open Source projects is to release them before they're >>> ready, to let community work on them as well. >> >> That would be fine in our case, *if* we could work on them >> concurrently, but there is so much cruft in dealing with the build >> environment - and too many forks in the details - that it makes it >> very unproductive to try to contribute. > > Oh come on. After reading all your (and others') scary messages > about that, I decided to give it a try. So I pointed my browser to > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MokoMakefile. Half an hour later, I had > a build in progress. Most of that half-hour was spent waiting for > stuff to download, and part of the rest was due to my running the > whole stuff in a particular isolated environment (cowbuilder chroot, > for those who care) with its own characteristics (stuff runs as root, > and I didn't have a home directory). > > Of course, the build hasn't completed yet (I have a few *.ipk > already, but the webpage mentions 5 hours on a computer that's rather > faster than mine), but if pasting less than 15 commands straight from > a web page is too high a barrier to entry for prospective developers, > I doubt they'd be able to accomplish much even if it was a single > command to run. > > Half an hour. 15 commands to copy and paste. How much more > hand-holding does a developer need? > > Roland. > -- > Roland Mas _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community