Thread: General rant about how hard it is for a non-techie to install apps
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neiljerram is offline neiljerram
2006-12-31 , 11:49
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#16
Originally Posted by mwiktowy
Where this is falling down at the moment is in reason 1. in that developers are not submitting their packages upstream to Nokia to include in their official repositories. I suspect that this is partially due to Nokia not clearly outlining a process for developers to do that simply.
Indeed. When I created my Garage project, I saw a comment somewhere to the effect that uploading to one of the standard repositories would only be allowed for developers with a "proven track record" - which was (i) a little vague, and (ii) a little offputting.

It might not be that bad in practice, though. For anyone interested, the required process is documented at http://maemo.org/maemowiki/ExtrasRepository, and I'm having a go at it now.

- Neil