>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ext >Aaron Levinson >Sent: 27 November, 2006 20:37 >To: Marius Gedminas >Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org >Subject: Re: [maemo-developers] mistral or scirocco? > >On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Marius Gedminas wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:56:49AM -0800, Aaron Levinson wrote: >> > But my main question is, if we build our package with the >> > scirocco/2.1 SDK, in which distribution on the extras repository >> > should we place the package, mistral or scirocco? >Considering that >> > the scirocco distribution is not published, I would guess the >> > mistral distribution is correct, but will packages built >with the 2.1 SDK work on an IT2006 mistral platform? >> >> I have found at least one package that does not work on mistral >> (2006.1): NFlick 0.3.0 requires hildon-libs0 >= 0.12.22-1, >but mistral >> has only 0.12.20-1. I assume it was build on scirocco. >> >> >http://groups-beta.google.com/group/nflick/browse_thread/thread/5b60c2 >> 1022270e2a > >It is likely that this package doesn't actually "need" the >newer version of hildon-libs, given that there were no changes >to the APIs exported by hildon-libs according to the 2.1 >release notes. As far as I can tell, the main difference >between 2.1 and 2.0, from a programming perspective, is the >addition of the libosso-abook APIs (the use of which might require an >IT2006 2.1 installation) and perhaps things having to do with >implementing a custom connection manager (which is a new >document for 2.1). There is also an >oss-dsp-modules-su-18-maemo package, but I'm not sure if this >introduces new programming facilities. > >But, it would be nice to get some confirmation from someone at >Nokia regarding this and whether or not packages built with >the 2.1 SDK are compatible with 2.0 installations (as a general rule). > >Aaron
Personal opinion (not Nokia's): As a general rule - depends. If package is made the usual way where the runtime dependencies are determined during package built then most likely no. I personally will not use scirocco for package building because the packages I build would have such dependencies that would prevent the users of original IT-2006 from using it - and that is really bad. In my case I could hack around it by hand-writing the dependencies so that they suit both scirocco and mistral (and herring and sardine too). When I build my projects on mistral they just install and work fine on scirocco, herring and sardine. And that's what application development should be about, imho. Br, --jakub _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
