Re: Qt embedded

[Yan Seiner <yan@seiner.com>]

Neil Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 17:05 -0300, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
> wrote:
>   
> > Hello everyone! While I am still a newbie here, I am _trying_ to package Qt 
> > embedded for Debian.
> >     
>
> Oooh! Another volunteer. ;-)
>
>   
> > My roadmap looks something like:
> >
> > * Create and package Qt-emb for i386. 
> >     
>
> Not necessarily a good idea - creating a whole new package.
>
>   
> > There is really a need for this by some 
> > friends (and me, as my ARM platform is now in Australia and I live in 
> > Argentina :-) )
> >
> > * Do the necessary changes to get Qt-emb into emdebian. If somehow I manage to 
> > create a package that will work for both platforms out-of-the-box, the better.
> >     
>
> To get a package into Emdebian, it first needs to be in Debian and it
> does need to work on both platforms to get into Debian.
>
> Probably better to work from the existing Qt packages and reduce their
> size and complexity.
>
>   
> > As I said before, I am a newbie in packaging tasks, so it will take me 
> > sometime. Non the less, I would really like to hear any comments you may have.
> >     
>
> Work with what we have and reduce the size of those - we know those
> actually work so it makes things easier to fix.
>  
>   

A few years ago I packaged Qt 3.3.4 for OpenWrt.  You may want to fish 
around for that; it should be somewhere in the openwrt.org bug tracker.

At least it's a start for building a small-ish Qt (not that Qt would 
ever get small....)


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