Gentlemen Thanks for adding me in the thread, I really appreciate it.
I wrote Amora server/client way back in 2007 (13 years ago) and for a little while it was a pretty successful project. We had a PyS60 (Nokia S60), J2ME client (never released) and a PythonEFL (Nokia tablets) client. Around 2012, I expected that Linux would move to Wayland (so it would require a new amora-server) and Nokia smartphone sales were going down. So I planned to re-write the server (did some experiments with QtWayland in 2012) and the client (2015 Qt was fully functional on both Android and iOS) but never finished the task to port the server to Qt5. Long story short, I support removing it from Debian as I lack the time to do the re-write and the devices that could run the client are long gone. Best regards Adenilson Cavalcanti BSc. Msc. Principal Engineer - ARM Chromium zlib maintainer On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 2:19 AM Moritz Mühlenhoff <j...@inutil.org> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 01:47:20AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > > Hi Moritz, > > > > Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > > > Attached is a quick-and-dirty patch to drop the amora-applet binary > > > package, qt4 will soon be removed from unstable. > > > > Thanks for the effort, but in the meanwhile I'm rather think we should > > remove amora completely from Debian, at least for now. > > > > Upstream (Cc'ed) tried to migrate to Qt5 about two years ago. > > Compiling and running with Qt5 was not the big issue, but getting > > Bluetooh working again — and hence core functionality: > > https://github.com/amora/amora/issues/86#issuecomment-432001824 > > > > Another point is that the main client platform are Nokia Symbian > > phones — which are nearly nowhere in use anymore. I still do have such > > a phone, but for years the only reason to power it on was to test > > amora before uploading. Haven't powered it on since the last upload... > > > > There's IIRC code for a Qt client (Qt 4 I assume, maybe even older) > > which AFAIK never was published in any app store though. If I remember > > correctly I once got it running on my OpenMoko (i.e. ages ago). Or was > > it on the Nokia N900? Can't remeber anymore... > > > > We still can bring it back when the Qt5 port is working properly and > > there's a client for modern mobile phones (even if only for less > > popular OS like KaiOS/GerdaOS or SailfishOS). > > Sounds good, removing it entirely is fair enough. Are you filing an RM > bug? Otherwise I can do it as well. > > Cheers, > Moritz >
