Bug#178676: ITP: qtopia-free -- Qtopia Free Developer Kit
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:06:52PM -0700, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:51:43PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > By the way, have you looked into opie? It's being used by several
> > handheld distributions with great success. It's a fork of qtopia, and
> > apparently its build system has been cleaned up quite a lot since I
> > looked into packaging it previously.
> >
> > If you're more interested in qtopia, maybe I'll take another stab at
> > opie (I just found out about this cleanup).
>
> I've not looked at opie yet. I'm mainly doing Qtopia so that I can get
> the desktop app done. I figured in doing so I'd learn more about how
> Qtopia is done and whether or not I really liked it. :) Knowing how
> trolltech handles things opie will probably build a hell of alot better
> than qtopia. Maybe we should figure out what is prefered for the Zaurus
> project. I'm going to keep working on this until I either succeed or get
> so fed up with it.
Feature-wise, I think they're pretty close, though Opie has added a few new
things and continues to merge in Qtopia improvements.
Based on my experience with the Zaurus, OpenZaurus is the best of breed
project, and it is based on opie. Opie development is generally more open;
it's much easier to get patches in.
So, I'd vote for Opie given a choice. The packaging may or may not be
similar, now that opie's build system has changed, so if you want to
continue working on qtopia, it might not be much of a duplication of effort
for me to try my hand at opie.
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- mdz
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