What could be done to improve the OM development process?

Mike Baroukh mike at baroukh.com
Wed Aug 13 10:46:47 CEST 2008


>
> Trust me, to avoid it, 
> for a while I really considered shipping a console-image for the framework 
> image, forcing people to ssh into to start getting familiar with the dbus 
> services...
hum ...
personnaly, I use it.
I couldn't get my GPRS work on ASU.
It works immediatly with FSO and I could phone while GPRS is on.

So please, if you do this, build also the wm and allowing us to install 
it ...


Or do I have to give another try to 2008.8 ?
My previous one wasn't successful ...



Mike

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer a écrit :
> Am Mittwoch 13 August 2008 09:24:46 schrieb Olivier Migeot:
>   
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Jeffery Davis
>>
>> <heavensblade23 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> 1. Instead of working on multiple concurrent software distributions, why
>>> not try to rally everyone under one banner for a while?
>>>       
>> Just my cheap comment on this : I feel less and less like there's
>> multiple concurrent software distributions. There was the gsmd-based
>> stack, but it doesn't look like OM is working on it. ASU and FSO looks
>> more and more like two parts of the same thing to me : ASU has some
>> very interesting EFL apps (beside phone apps), and FSO's phone app
>> (zhone) is based on EFL too. So the future merge of the two branches
>> (or "half-branches", if I'm right) shouldn't be that hard nor
>> hypothetical.
>>     
>
> FSO is about the framework. It's _not_ a second distribution worked on by the 
> Openmoko team. It rather exposes the framework-level work with some example 
> code. Here are the only reasons FSO exists as an image and not just as a 
> couple of ipks:
>
> a) Middleware is invisible.
> b) Defining APIs without working on an API consumer seldomly lead to something 
> good.
>
> I was afraid all this confusion would arise, that's why I (thought I) made it 
> clear enough on the framework wiki page and the blogs. Trust me, to avoid it, 
> for a while I really considered shipping a console-image for the framework 
> image, forcing people to ssh into to start getting familiar with the dbus 
> services...
>
>   




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