ext Jeremiah Foster <jerem...@jeremiahfoster.com> writes: >> x.The big fundamental difference between Debian and Maemo Extras is >> that Debian is producing one big release of a complete integrated >> distribution, while Maemo Extras is a collection of mostly >> independent applications that are released independently. Maemo >> Extras is not collectively frozen at any point. (It will cool down >> as people lose interest in it, but nobody is waiting for a stable >> release of Maemo Extras as a whole.) > > Well, I see them both as operating systems, so I don't think they are > really that different in keeping quality across the OS.
True, from the quality point of view, they have quite similar goals: all the packages should work well together and form a consistent 'whole'. I was looking at releases: imagine that Nokia would develop platform libraries in extras-devel as well, together with the applications, and updates to the OS would be released by promoting them to extras (via extras-testing), just like applications are released now. With Debian's model, this would mean that applications in extras-devel will be frozen and ultimately released together with the rest of the platform. I don't think this is acceptable. Applications should move to extras much more frequently than Nokia releases OS updates. > The big difference between debian and Maemo is that debian is > _completely_ free software while Maemo has closed bits. Also, Debian is not developed behind closed doors. But that's another battle. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
