Thank you very much for you insight!
Of course my words were not an attack, I really wanted to know why people may decide it's better to go that way instead of going on the one paved by Maemo.
Aniello
2009/1/10 Jayesh Salvi <jayeshsalvi@xxxxxxxxx>
Hi Aniello,
My separate repository is not a permanent solution. I just wanted to give users a more intuitive way to install multiple inter-dependent packages without having to fiddle with dpkg CLI commands.
I did give a try to uploading my packages to maemo-extras. I got the permissions and went halfway through the steps, after which I got the impression that the procedure needed autotools build system for the package. One of my packages uses SCons instead of autotools. My impression might be wrong, but I decided to postpone that investigation for a future release. And I fortunately got a way to setup a makeshift repo.
I know the advantages to the users if I use maemo-extras repo, instead of a private one-off. But until I get there, I wanted to push off a long-overdue app to the users and gather some feedback.
Hope that helps!
Thanks,
JayeshOn Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
may I ask you the rationale behind your choice to use your own repository instead of using the devel-extras repository ?
Aniello2009/1/10 Jayesh Salvi <jayeshsalvi@xxxxxxxxx>
_______________________________________________Hi,
I just finished the Twitter client for n810 - using SVG based GUI library (Inkface). You can check out the demo video here.
You can try out the client yourself:
In the Maemo Application Manager, add following Catalog:
Name: Altcanvas
Web Address: http://repo.altcanvas.com
Distribution: testing
Components: main
Refresh the application list. You should see 'twitter-inkface' app in the list. All the dependencies will be automatically pulled from the repo.
In case you hit any problem with the repository (because it's my non-standard implementation of a debian repo :), you can download following four .deb files and install them "dpkg -i *.deb".libaltsvg,inkface-python, inklib, twitter-inkface.
With this milestone, inkface libraries reach a v0.1.2. To know more about Inkface project, visit the project page.
Feedback is appreciated!!!
Thanks,
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