On Monday 16 August 2010 23:38:19 Bernd Stramm wrote: > Is that really a big problem? If a developer can't learn to deal with a > recent Linux system, how good are they as a developer? And how could > you expect these people to deal with the target device's behaviour?
Just to chip-in on this. This is a very dangerous argument to make. Is the goal to rank developers, or to make the developer tools available to as many as possible ? I thought we all learned this lesson with Maemo and Scratchbox - I know several hackers (even linux natives) who ARE damn good developers (including KDE and kernel contributors), but never fancied serious Maemo development because they found Scratchbox too much of a fuss - and no alternative until the Nokia Qt SDK. OTOH, someone's ability to work with Scratchbox gave no guarantee regarding the quality of the resulting applications, and that's why IMHO the 'good developers won't mind complex tools' stance is completely bogus. You can (successfully) dictate tool requirements only if your platform is so strong that commercial interest make quality or cost irrelevant - and MeeGo is just not there yet. That's why this fuss keeps resurfacing, regarding SSSE3, Intel graphics, MeeGo SDK, etc. Best regards, Attila _______________________________________________ MeeGo-community mailing list MeeGo-community@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-community
