Thread: Sailfish(Jolla): Ideas/Qns & Concerns/Criticisms
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2013-02-11 , 05:40
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Originally Posted by rcolistete View Post
Not just the Mer, Sailfish OS also uses some parts of Nemo Mobile. And MeeGo Harmattan softwares in Qt/Qt Quick can be easily ported.

So, today, everybody can develop :
- libraries, CLI softwares, etc, for Mer/Sailfish OS;
- GUI softwares in MeeGo Harmattan/Nemo Mobile and easily port to Sailfish OS.
If you go to the Sailfish wiki, to learn how to start developing for Sailfish, you are presented with the following message:

Application Developers / Build a Sailfish App
It's early days for building applications on Sailfish OS; at the moment you have to build your own copy of QtCreator and then work with the people in #jollamobile on IRC.
We are using Qt with our Sailfish UI components and soon you will be able to download our QtCreator plugins that will automate this for you.

Why, after all these months, have they not bothered to bundle up these components, and provide something like a virtualbox image with the required components so that persons wishing to develop for their platform don't have to roll their own SDK?

BTW - the #jollamobile IRC channel is about as active as a cemetery.
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