Hi, Ville M. Vainio wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Dave Neary <dne...@maemo.org> wrote: >> Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, and you're suggesting that >> developers should use whatever method is appropriate for the upstream >> build tools, and then handle the packaging afterwards? (which seems like >> sensible advice). > > Actually, I wasn't even considering the option that "upstream" could > be someone apart from the packager. That's not the beginner usecase - > it's something for a separate porting guide (outlining what you need > to change when porting stuff from debian/ubuntu).
Well, there's "what you use to build your software" and "what you use to install it". If you're building your software with autotools, you get a bunch of helper scripts for your packaging coming along for the ride. You also get "make install" and "make dist" for free. If you're building your software with a Qt project, you also have a standard way of installing software. And usually software writers don't particularly want to install their software on only one distribution, you'll often get .tar.gz, .rpm and .deb versions of the same package. Also, one of the typical beginner strategies I see is someone who takes existing desktop software & tries to adapt it for the N900. So there's an existing build infrastructure in place already. > We don't really want to create the illusion that it's ok for a > beginner to create a project using autotools/cmake and expect > everything to work - we would be doing them a disservice. It was ok in > the early days of maemo5, but nowadays things we push should work with > MADDE and Nokia Qt SDK as well. I disagree. MADDE and Nokia Qt SDK may be the future for MeeGo, but when we're talking about Maemo 5 documentation, Hildon is still the reccommended UI toolkit and we should ensure that people coming to Fremantle have good docs. Cheers, Dave. -- maemo.org docsmaster Email: dne...@maemo.org Jabber: bo...@jabber.org _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
