Aw: Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Tim Teulings
Hallo! As one of the people that had shutdown his own repository as response to mentioned request to consolidate I can assure that such request was very polite, I was never forced and every help was promised (which I did not need) and no timeline was given. We never talked about the actual

Re: Aw: Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread lakestevensdental
A couple comments on this subject. First, it doesn't do anyone any good to attack the messengers or worker bees regardless of what their involvement with the tablets is. Stuff happens, stuff gets noticed and brought to attention, stuff gets corrected. No one is intentionally screwing things

Re: Aw: Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Mark
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:51 PM, lakestevensdental [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consolidation -- It's fine with endusers like me if repositories are consolidated. Perhaps it would help if Nokia offered some sort of incentive, like low priced/free units and alpha/beta testing for developers using

Re: Aw: Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Peter Flynn
Mark wrote: I also have to point out that the maemo site is always incredibly slow, which can't possibly help any of these situations. It doesn't matter whether I'm on my home desktop, my N800 on WiFi, or a school machine on a very fast network, it always takes forever for pages on the

Re: Aw: Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread lakestevensdental
Mark wrote: I also have to point out that the maemo site is always incredibly slow, which can't possibly help any of these situations. It doesn't matter whether I'm on my home desktop, my N800 on WiFi, or a school machine on a very fast network, it always takes forever for pages on the maemo

Re: App-Manager failure (was: Re: Aw: Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 21, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Peter Flynn wrote: lakestevensdental wrote: As it is, App Manager seems a rather crude work in progress that displays the crudest information during the updating process -- it doesn't even say what repository catalog is being updated during the update process.

Re: Aw: Re: the hell of Maemo repos

2008-11-21 Thread Ryan Abel
On Nov 21, 2008, at 5:59 PM, lakestevensdental wrote: Mark wrote: I also have to point out that the maemo site is always incredibly slow, which can't possibly help any of these situations. It doesn't matter whether I'm on my home desktop, my N800 on WiFi, or a school machine on a very fast