On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:41:40 +1030 Rod Whitby <[email protected]> said:
> Thomas has one opinion about MokoMakefile. It is not the only opinion > held by various Openmoko and third-party developers. > > It is true that the delta between the normal OE build process, and the > Openmoko build process is progressively getting smaller. > > However, there are many people who find the normal OE setup instructions > too complex, and seem to happily use the nslu2-linux Makefile, the FSO > Makefile, or the SHR Makefile to build OE distributions. > > In my opinion, build setup instructions need to be executable, otherwise > they are always out of date. When a Makefile is not up to date with the > intentions of the Openmoko developers, the delta is clear and can be > fixed once in a central place for many people. When there are multiple > wiki pages all saying slightly different things, changes to the build > process are much harder to deploy. agreed. i know i started with mokomakefile as simply doing it the "oe way" was much more work. if oe provided a simple shell/makefile setup (and update mechanism) it'd be good. > -- Rod > > Juan Alberto Aranda Alvarez wrote: > > Then, it should be wiped out completely from the wiki. I guess it was > > created as a way to "protect" new developers. But it totally confused me. > > > > The toolchain is a good idea to show newcomers the phone and get them > > excited with it. But it isn't maintained either, so you have a lot of > > new comers wanting to port their application and would only get > > disappointed. > > > > Juan. > > > > Thomas Gstädtner wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Juan Alberto Aranda Alvarez > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> So basically MokoMakefile is broken? > >> It not only is broken, it also is unmaintained. I suggest you to use > >> plain Openembedded, makes everything much easier. > > > > Yes it does > >> _______________________________________________ > >> devel mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > > > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
