On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 22:23, Tim Teulings <[email protected]> wrote: > > This however means that there can be no central instance to decide if an > application is compliant or not just based on the application package and > its contents and thus an applications compliance is in relation to the > platform it is running. > > So bobapp's web page and package description would say: > * This is the wonderful bobapp. It is Meego compliant for Device Zupp and > Device Wusch but not for Device ExtraLess.
However the Ovi Store, and any equivalent of maemo.org/downloads/ (or Packages) can say "bobapp is MeeGo Compliant" complete with some little badge thing or whatever it is Marketing order ;-) And, as a developer, I can say "bobapp application is MeeGo Compliant. Get it from MeeGo Extras today!" If I choose to upload it somewhere else, I may not be able to use such a definitive statement. This *encourages* developers to centralise, but doesn't bless any particular repository as being required by the specification; nor does it mandate that all vendors have to enable any repository access (or even allow third party application installation), let alone any particular repository. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[email protected] | http://www.bleb.org/ Maemo Community Council chair _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
