Hello!
>> However it seems that anybody
>> that looks for already existing applications for his 810 currently will
>> not find them (if this package is also available for OS 2007 or 2006).
>> That is at least more than "not nice" ;-)
>
> Perhaps, although kind of makes sense considering that the device is not
> yet in the market and the OS2008 is not available for public download.
>
> However, we will create the OS2008 category very soon and before the
> OS2008/N810 are out. This way developers can start uploading, SDK users
> can try in the emulated environment and N810 proto owners can start
> doing some real testing installing apps in a convenient way.
That was not the point. Please read my initial problem description. The
problem is, that if your application catalog entry states that you have
packages for multiple OS version (my current packages support OS2006 and
OS2007) and you search for packages for OS 2007, you will not see most of my
packages. At least that is the way it is for my packages.
This will get worse for OS 2008 when it will be release. Me and likely all
maintainers of long existing and stable packages will add OS 2008 to their
list of supported OS versions.
If new user will search for software for their new N810 they may not see
these packages at all and will assume that there are no packages while in
fact they are (it is difficult to judge which packages he will see, because
if I go to downloads.maemo.org and just do the default search (any packages
for OS 2007) I only see a small subset that has no obivous common criteria -
but only a small subset). They have to walk all the categories manually to
see all available applications.
The bug ticket you linked sounds like it will fix this problem by changing
the interface. Will it be out in time?
--
Gruß...
Tim.
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