OM2007.2

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On 7/31/08, Wolfgang Spraul <wolfgang at openmoko.com> wrote:
> Jay,
>
>> Not me!  I witnessed all the work that went into OM 2007.2 over the
>> last couple of years - including the days of OE - and when it was all
>> chucked out for 'the new stuff' it was, frankly, a bit miserable.
>
> The only thing that was 'chucked out' was the matchbox window manager.
> It was a great piece of technology and we still like it, but we
> decided to replace it with raster's Enlightenment and raster did a
> fantastic job.
> I think even though the switch was painful at the beginning, we now
> can be proud of E and have very interesting options going forward.
>
> Everything else is still there, including GTK+ if that's what you are
> looking for.
> The GTK+ telephony applications are not used by default anymore, but
> we are working on making them easily installable through the Installer.
> I hope eventually you will like OM 2008.8 as much as you like OM 2007.2
>
> But forks are welcome, if people out there show us how to do things
> better, I'm pretty sure I speak for many of us that we will not suffer
> from NIH syndrome and instead just try to integrate great stuff into
> our builds.
> OpenEmbedded makes it very easy for people to do things differently
> from us, and we invest quite a bit of time and money into it.
> Best Regards,
> Wolfgang
>
> On Jul 31, 2008, at 2:08 PM, Jay Vaughan wrote:
>
>>> I would be curious to know what kind of developer numbers (non-OM
>>> employees) would provide support to a fork of OM2007.2 into a purely
>>> community driven project?
>>
>> I'll tag along if there is a fork.
>>
>>> Does everyone think 2007 is a dead path and that the ASU/FSO course
>>> is the only one to follow?
>>
>> Not me!  I witnessed all the work that went into OM 2007.2 over the
>> last couple of years - including the days of OE - and when it was all
>> chucked out for 'the new stuff' it was, frankly, a bit miserable.
>>
>>
>>
>> ;
>> --
>> Jay Vaughan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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