Hi, maybe I'm wrong but the Scratchbox mailing lists looks pretty dead right now (see [1]). Is there any community alive behind it, or should the "new MeeGo project" reanimate Scratchbox if it would be used?
2011/10/4 Jeremiah Foster <[email protected]>: >> OBS is built with packaging in mind, so it builds packages locally and >> on servers in a sanitized environment. Scratchbox may be polluted by >> whatever packages a developer has installed and makes dependency >> tracking a bit harder IMO. > > I agree that working in a dirty chroot is problematic. That is why there is > pbuilder and cowdancer. > Wouldn't it be better to use a decentral build system? Can a mobile segment distro like MeeGo be really compared with a desktop segment distro like e.g. embedded Ubuntu? (This is not relative to your message but a general rhetorical question.) Well I didn't use embedded Debian as example because Emdebian mailing lilsts seem to be pretty dead [2]. > Before it was just big companies that could create their own Linux distros > (before that everyone had their bespoke UNIX distro) nowadays fragmentation > is brought to you by every Tom, Dick and Harry with an OBS login. > I've been down the fragmentation road before. It always ends with retracing > your path back to the main highway. There seems to be much standardization work going on in the Yocto Project / OpenEmbedded Core (see [3], also Carsten already mentioned the Yocto Project in context of governance), anyone evaluated it? The Yocto Project / OpenEmbedded was discussed before in the IVI mailing list (see [4]), but it lacks any technical explanations and arguments why it cannot be used / or get adapted, also OpenEmbedded progressed into the new OpenEmbedded Core Project (the next release is just one step away). On a technical point of view it is possible to port over to Yocto Project, and it would make sence to concentrate the development of embedded linux distributions to unify them into a single development base instead of fragmenting the communities. Well I just stated my opinion here. [1] http://lists.scratchbox.org/pipermail/scratchbox-devel/ [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2011/09/threads.html [3] http://www.yoctoproject.org/projects/openembedded-core [4] http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-ivi/2011-February/000198.html > Regards, > Jeremiah > > > _______________________________________________ > MeeGo-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev > http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- Regards Samuel _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev http://wiki.meego.com/Mailing_list_guidelines
