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2010-05-26 , 14:51
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Originally Posted by smoku View Post
So, Harmattan is not MeeGo. It's only called MeeGo, but it is still Maemo. It's not MeeGo product, but MeeGo instance.

OK. Got it. Now it's clear.

So, this thread is about creating MeeGo product which contains Harmattan components, on the contrary to MeeGo instance contained in Harmattan.
No, the thread is about bringing the MeeGo instance contained in Harmattan to N900. Ie, bring Harmattan to N900. Harmattan on N900.

Don't you worry that you will loose audience as soon Nokia launches Harmattan device and starts working on MeeGo device? Similarly to how Mer lost traction once N900 got released.
My (personal) hope is that it is really a trivial port. Similar to how we ported Maemo5 to Beagleboard and Zoom2.. both OMAP3 devices with similar hardware.. But audience.. everyone moves on sometime.

This project is to bridge the gap till MeeGo (RPM based) is mature enough and has differentiation available and we can want to port that to N900. It isn't a new 'big project', it's similar to a mini project like Maemo on Beagle was. And best of all, it is a project to have the N900 not be left behind. And a realistic one of the sort.

It's been a failure if we don't have something working properly on N900 by Harmattan release (or whatever comes right before).

Goal would be to make the hardware adaptation stand on it's own so it can be easily maintained and follow Harmattan releases with ease. Done just right, it would be a minimal set of patches towards Harmattan + some binaries to support N900.

Beginnings would be patching against what is being released in the Harmattan alpha, beta releases. Building images with that, configurations, etc.
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