maemo.org - Talk - View Single Post - Half-year review of Stskeeps's work as distmaster

	Stskeeps	2010-04-30 , 12:52
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Originally Posted by SD69

A couple casual thoughts...

yes, it is about the apps. There are 500+ Maemo 4 apps. As much as people have investments in the N8x0 devices, aren't there as much if not more investments in the Maemo 4 software?

Can we afford to wait for a few iterations (6 month cycle) of MeeGo? I think not.

stskeeps can work on the n8x0 h/w adaption layer, but shouldn't someone also work on the "Maemo API adaption" layer?

Another good argument for MeeGo is the fact that well, it is built for ARMv5, ARMv7 with an indication of it staying around.. and maybe, let's say that the default MeeGo ARM SDK (Qt creator, MADDE, etc) would be targetting a low ARM version by default or building both..

Doesn't this mean that many new apps for MeeGo (qt) will be available on MeeGo N8x0 too? How many apps do you think MeeGo will attract?

But you're right regarding Maemo API adaptation. Can we even get hildon and maemo gtk to play nice in MeeGo? The second problem is packaging, all the Maemo4/5 apps would have to be repackaged. Can we return to this topic in MeeGo for N8x0 because it is something I worry about as well?

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