Re: Life after Opie 1.2.0

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:45 pm, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Hi fellow developers,
>
> now that through Familiar Linux 0.8.2 and OpenZaurus 3.5.3,
> Opie 1.2.0 is finally released to the general audience, we
> can start the great Palaver about what we want to do next.
>
> >From discussions on IRC in the past weeks, I have got the
>
> impression that basically there are three kind of interests
> out there:
>
> a) fixing bugs and polishing what we currently have
>
> b) adding new applications and playing with new concepts
>    based on the current set of libraries
>
> c) starting from scratch with something revolutionary rather
>    than cloning existing environments

 d) merging qtopia 2.1.x changes, and getting back to a compatible 
drop-in/stand-in/addition-to for qtopia and qtopia devices. Merging Qtopia 4 
changes when they are released, saving us (opie developers) a lot of 
headaches in the meantime.

Why you ask? Because we do not have the developer resources to start from 
scratch. Why not harness Trolltech's developers to maintain those base 
libraries, etc? Opie can then be an extension of that. How about porting to 
qt/e4? Do you want to do that entirely yourself? It isn't going to be easy. I 
see first hand the struggles of porting Qtopia to qte/4. The changes are 
numerable and it can be frustrating.

> c) Starting from scratch needs to be done in a separate repository. We
> could
Why start from scratch when you have a set of professional developers GIVING 
you code for free!!
If you want to radically diverge from what Opie is/has been, wouldn't this be 
a separate project altogether?

Do you really want to fragment things even more than they already are? 

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Lorn 'ljp' Potter
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