Adding Applications To OpenMoko The Right Way

[Gergely Kis]

Hi,

On 8/30/07, Gergely Kis <openmoko at kisgergely.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 8/28/07, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <mickey at openmoko.org> wrote:
> > Please bear with us a bit longer, a dedicated "OE-free" toolchain for application developers is on our todo list. In the meantime, the best means to add custom applications to the openmoko image is to derive own task and image packages from it. See e.g. how openmoko-devel-image differs from openmoko-image (by RDEPENDing on one additional task that -- in turn -- depends on some additional applications).
> >
> Could I ask why this decision was made? In my understanding the only
> problem with the OE based environment is that you need to build
> everything yourself, instead of being able to use a precompiled
> OE/OpenMoko environment, and (re)build only the developed application.
> I found an initiative in the OpenEmbedded Wiki
> http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/PackagedStaging, but Koen told me
> that the current focus shifted towards making the toolchain
> packageable first and worrying about the staging later. Are these
> initiatives related in any way?
Just to clarify, I was asking about the "OE-free" toolchain, because
it is my experience that maintaining multiple toolchains  /
development environments for the same thing is a real pain...

Best Regards,
Gergely