Ross Burton wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 01:15 +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: >> Mikhail Sobolev wrote: >> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 09:16:38PM +0100, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: >> >> Please take a look into OpenEmbedded, which makes building images for >> >> various machine types very easy. The configurations for the Nokia >> >> internet tablets are supported, but could need some fresh blood. >> > We actually did quite some time ago and for some reason we decided not >> > to go for it. I'm afraid now it will require a significant of both >> > effort and blood to change for it. >> >> I don't think so.
> It would, all of the packages on the device are (obviously) Debian > packages, and the debian/rules of the typical maemo package is quite > non-trivial. I'm not saying that OE can't do the same things (it can, > and I'm a supporter of the OE as build system model, clearly), but it > would take some time to rework every package and all of their tweaks. Of course -- I was not thinking along using OE to recreate their complete IT OS distribution, but more towards adding the necessary glue logic to make it build usable community-supperted images and packages -- to complement rather than substitute. Regards, :M: -- Dr. Michael 'Mickey' Lauer | IT-Freelancer | http://www.vanille-media.de _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
