On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 04:50:47PM +0100, Hugh Warrington wrote: > Andrew Flegg wrote: > >On 8/29/06, Devesh Kothari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>ext Christian Pernegger wrote: > >>>- setting up the developent environment was a bitch > >> > >>Could you please send me why ? > >>- Setting up ScratchBox ??? > >>- Downloading, extracting maemo x.x rootstrap ? > >>- Setting up UI environment like Xnest/Xephyr? > >>- Setting up CPU_Transparency stuff ??? (need for advanced stuff) ??? > >> > >>I am asking you, so we improve it. > > > >It was just a long and labourious process. The `installer' script made > >it trivial the second time I did it, so much so I wonder why this > >isn't advertised more as a recommended and supported way of > >installing? > > I didn't find copy-pasting ten or twenty lines of clear instructions > into a terminal window very taxing. In fact, as cross-compilation goes, > setting up and working within the recommended maemo environment is a breeze.
People have different expectations. I have come to expect one line of
instructions: apt-get install package-name, and that's it.
I do not like to run shell script that install software. Package
management systems are there for a reason.
It is good that I can apt-get install scratchbox into my Ubuntu laptop.
Figuring out *which* packages to install was a bit trickier
(scratchbox-core scratchbox-devkit-debian scratchbox-libs
scratchbox-toolchain-cs2005q3.2-glibc-i386
scratchbox-toolchain-cs2005q3.2-glibc-arm).
Would it be possible to prepare a Debian package that
* depends on all the necessary scratchbox packages
* asks via debconf for a list of users that you want to add to the
sbox group and create scratchbox user accounts
* automates the scratchbox target creation and configuration
(rootstrap, .bash_profile, etc.), maybe from the same postinst
script, maybe from a separate shell script.
* includes the start-maemo-xephyr shell script.
* ships with a shell script that sets up scratchbox when you run it
for the first time (adduser $USERNAME sbox
? The main question seems to be: can I tell /scratchbox/login to run
some command (say, a shell script that calls the necessary sequence of
sbox-config commands)?
I think the best user experience is
one command for installation (apt-get install maemo-scratchbox)
one command to start Xnest (maemo-xephyr?)
one command to start an i386 shell (maemo-386-shell)
one command to start an armel shell (maemo-armel-shell)
No extra configuration required.
Hm... looks like a worthy project for a weekend.
A VMWare virtual appliance with scratchbox preconfigured would also be
nice, I suppose, although personally I'm not interested in it.
Marius Gedminas
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The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony #9.
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