Re: impromptu IRC meeting
Thanks for the corrections!
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Gilles Filippini wrote:
> Not true anymore: it builds successfully against Qt 4.8.
Excellent.
> It's perfectible. A user-space branch is under experiment [1].
>
> [1] <https://github.com/strupppi/qtmoko/tree/RunAsUser_GTA04>
Cool
> A try was given at using the FSO stack, but it's not in the plans
> anymore (AIUI).
Thats a bit sad, it means hardware support has to be done twice for
every device, once for FSO and once for QtMoko.
>> Everything is bundled into one big source tree instead of split up.
>
> That's the main problem. I didn't succeeded yet at splitting the build
> process.
There is also the fact that there are a huge number of embedded code
copies. It even has a copy of zlib!
>> It uses a forked atd and will not work with the Debian one.
>
> Not true anymore.
I guess someone should tell upstream they can git rm
src/3rdparty/tools/atd then.
> There is some effort in pushing the GTA04 kernel patches upstream.
Excellent.
> He (Radek) seems interested int it, but it's low priority wrt user
> experience for the moment.
Thanks for the clarification.
So the TODO list for getting QtMoko into Debian for those who want to
work on it:
Get upstream to drop all the many embedded code copies.
Get upstream to merge the RunAsUser_GTA04 branch.
Audit the code for security issues, cppcheck finds a number of issues
and grepping for system() finds a lot of calls that should be
converted to QProcess or exec().
Add support for OEM (or generically-configured) mode to dpkg, apt, d-i
so that Debian can produce pre-installed images like QtMoko does but
without having to massage the image after install. Then integrate that
with the QtMoko first-startup wizard. The current Debian images
(cloud/live) are hacking around in the image after it has been
produced.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/07/msg00694.html
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pabs
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