<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:19 AM, "Marco Trevisan (Treviņo)" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@3v1n0.net">mail@3v1n0.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Holger Freyther ha scritto:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> On Thursday 09 October 2008 18:04:12 Marco Trevisan (Treviņo) wrote:<br>
>> Marek Lindner wrote:<br>
>>> - Openmoko is going to fund <a href="http://freesmartphone.org" target="_blank">freesmartphone.org</a> and treat it as a<br>
>>> complement to <a href="http://freedesktop.org" target="_blank">freedesktop.org</a>. FSO defines an API which makes it easier<br>
>>> to develop applications on top of it and provides a reference<br>
>>> implementation.<br>
>>><br>
>>> [CUT]<br>
>>><br>
>>> - One of the major features in the next Openmoko software release<br>
>>> (Om2009) will be "FSO-compliant". Meaning that software that builds upon<br>
>>> the FSO APIs will be able to run on the next major release.<br>
>> I knew something about this, but which will be the phone and PIM stack?<br>
><br>
> I don't know. FSO is primarily API and it comes with a nice sample<br>
> implementation. So there would be nothing to prevent a Qtopia implementation<br>
> of this API.<br>
><br>
> Possible scenariois:<br>
><br>
> 1.)<br>
> - Paroli comes and we just provide a way to migrate Qtopia data to FSO<br>
> (addressbook, messages)<br>
<br>
</div>I'm for this one! :)</blockquote><div><br>Me too.<br><br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> I would say be prepared to replace the Qtopia usage with FSO. So have proper<br>
> abstractions where Qtopia is used so you can switch that to FSO.<br>
<br>
</div>I do agree... But as said it's very important to provide a compatible<br>
PIM stack (migrating is good but not the best if people would like to<br>
have a dual-boot [multi-boot] keeping its data - I'm doing this actually<br>
between Qtopia and Om2008, and losing it would be bad).</blockquote><div><br>Compatibility makes only sense if the other solution is good and doesn't limit.<br>Don't know about the Qtopia PIM stack, so I can't say if it makes sense or not.<br>
<br><br>Btw.: there also was the PIM project in GSoC. I'm sure there will be some results published soon.<br></div></div></div>