Hi,
Mike Frantzen wrote:
>> ...
I think it's even worse than that. There are enough differences to the
usual linux/gtk development environment that the N770 is very
frustrating to develop for. The usual embedded linux target gives the
developer the freedom to choose the methods to his madness. The N770
forces developer do it Nokia's way or not at all.
We (Nokia) don't enforce stuff. But if you want to use some stuff, then you need
to use it the way it has to be used ;)
Most embedded linux
targets are just as mature as the underlying linux system. The N770
used enough bleeding edge technology that it has some very sharp edges;
and as a developer I really don't like the bleeding part.
The big ones that immedietly come to mind are:
1) gstreamer which I understand if you want to offload multimedia to
the DSP. It's just too bad that it's not stable.
What do you consider so unstable here? The way the DSPPlugins (decoder sinks)
work right now is now perfect - we know that and we are going to improve it step
by step.
2) dbus/libosso. blech, complex solution to a simple problem. very
"Windows" like
Personaly I like DBus. I don't see how this relates to Windows. Please enlighten
us :)
3) hildon-specific gtk widgets instead of just modifying the stock GTK
widgets to work well on the N770 platform
The plan here, was *not* to fork gtk. Please remember that there was no ready
made receipie for us. We know that its not perfect, but still I like what we
achived so far.
Porting existing applications to the N770 involves rewriting some things
and kludging the hell out of others. Both which make it much less likely
that the diffs will be accepted back into the main application's source
tree. Which means the porter has to maintain his diffs out of the tree
which is a big PITA.
>
Then please point out such things. Many things can be abstracted, but sometimes
it needs some time to get the right ideas. We had to start somewhere.
Writing new applications for the N770 locks your application into the
N770 platform or you implement a lot of things twice, once for the N770
and once for everything else. You end up doing things twice since it's
much more pleasant to debug outside of a N770 or a scratchbox.
I'm not happy with the N770 software. The hardware is great and the
platform does have some serious potential if it ever matures under the
hood.
>
It will and its up to you to decide wheter you wanna help or sulk.
.mike
Stefan
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