Thanks for the reply, I saw yesterday on another blog that the problem might be one of cutture .. Nokia people used to working on phones and not on a Linux OSS project. It's replies like this that show that Nokia cares! Gary Baribault Courriel: gary at baribault.net GPG Key: 0x4346F013 GPG Fingerprint: BCE8 2E6B EB39 9B23 6904 1DF4 C4E6 2CF7 4346 F013 Marius Vollmer wrote: > "ext Gary Baribault" <gary at baribault.net> writes: > >> OK then, can I beat up on them? > > Sure, keep it coming! :-) It is good to see what people care about, > and a good rant is always appreciated. It really does help keep my > priorities sane, at least. > >> I agree, this is a lousy way of doing the updates, I cannot suggest >> this device to anyone if every time there is an update, all >> applications have to be re-installed!! Why can't the update take a >> proper#full backup to a flash card, dump a list of applications, and >> after the flash, re-install the latest updated applications? > > Nothing is impossible, and we actually have enough bright people here > to have all the right ideas, but somehow it always takes loooong to > actually turn them into "code in your hands". > > The "backing up and restoring the list of applications" feature was > committed to the Application Manager trunk in February 2007 (with lots > of bug fixes in the following months, of course). > > Why are you still complaining about not having it? :-) Because it is > only coming out officially about now with Chinook. > > That's not right, if you ask me. We are slowly warming up to the idea > of public beta releases with the browser and sip things and we should > be doing this for the whole OS. > >
