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2007-08-17 , 12:29
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Originally Posted by macegr View Post
I puzzled through the SDK installation only to have it *partially* work. No one actually has a good tutorial on how to set up a development environment for this tablet. Some of the HowTo's are literally incomplete pastes from several readme files...so bad, there are actually instances of "now use this command:" and there is a blank space. The same files are referred to by different names in almost every setup guide, and in order to find all the necessary files you have to piece clues from five different incomplete tutorials and fill in the gaps with Google (mostly seeing unanswered requests for help setting up the dev environment).
Having spent a large amount of last week puzzling that too, I can at least answer that (and posted in the developer thread).
Ignore the howtos that are referenced in the normal maemo sections, the ones you refer to with missing parts. They missing parts can actually be viewed in the html. I went to the bugtracker to view mention the problem after someone (possibly texrat) said about remembering to raise bugs, I found a but that referenced it, but unfortunately it seemed to be just a list of comments arguing about whos problem it was to fix, or whether it was already fixed, so I don't think it is going to be fixed anytime soon!
Anyway, even if it was fixed (in which case it would look like the complete ones on test.maemo.org), if you mean the 770, even the working document is completely wrong and can't be followed, luckily I found a page (actually referenced on the bug about the documentations page) where it does give good working instructions:
http://www.ptlug.org/wiki/Howto_Inst..._for_Nokia_770

It is a pretty poor state of affairs if you can't actually get the instructions to set up to develop on the site purporting to be about the device itself, and instead of fixing the problem the people in charge of it just argue about whos fault it is.


Originally Posted by macegr View Post
There are a lot of good programmers out there who just want to get a toolkit and write their code, not fix the toolkit first.
Too right. It also filters out the type of developers who aren't prepared to put up with complicated setups, which possible explains how a lot of software has over complicated setups, or confusing settings!