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2009-07-10 , 20:43
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Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
I noticed this quoted statement and also that the goals for Mer were recently changed in the Wiki, and also the FAQ stating that it would be necessary to dual boot with Diablo to run Diablo apps.
Re: goals, we just cleaned them up a bit - re Diablo: Right, I can't find that FAQ - and the one I found doesn't say that.

Just to make sure there is no misunderstanding, Mer does not and will not contain Diablo APIs - correct?
Well. Keep in mind that most Fremantle APIs are backwards compatible to Diablo. So most stuff works, or with little change. The only Diablo API Mer really contains is the old hildon desktop (which we may get rid of).

We actually never had Diablo GTK, Hildon, etc. - they were all Fremantle even before the alpha releases.

If so, this is disappointing as I was hoping that it would be possible to use Mer to run a Diablo app on a device other than a NIT

edit: who or what is "maemian"?
In most cases you'll be able to run the app on Mer - but honestly, developers should work on porting their applications to Fremantle APIs. Do you have any particular applications in mind?

Diablo API is a dead end. Unless of course you want to be hired by Marvell who's reference design of a MP4 player is MediaBox on top of a Diablo SDK that has been made to actually run..

Maemian is a script like linitian that checks if a debian (source) package is correct and sane. One of the ideas of Fremantle extras (do note i mean extras, not -testing, -devel), correct me if I'm wrong - packages will have to pass a number of tests including maemian tests to be included in the main extras repository.

The hope is that we can through that process incite developers to have cleaner and more portable packages (read: will build on Mer, Fremantle, even within OpenEmbedded without problems).
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