Re: Situation with OPIE and Angstrom

Hello Florian,

Thursday, December 7, 2006, 6:22:11 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> Paul Sokolovsky schrieb:
>> Well, this is common practice, and they are quite understood in such
>> attitude. This leaves question open, what to use as the base for
>> OPIE-based distribution. I see two possibilities:
>>
>> 1. Use other existing distro as a base.
>> 2. Start new distro.

> wouldn't it make more sense to try to fix remaining Opie issues?

  Yes, that's the plan. But it going to take some, if not more, time.
And Angstrom maintainers don't buy into promises to fix them (I
wouldn't either ;-) ).

> If this is not
> possible you will run into the same situation with any distribution. Just take a
> look at Familiar which more than conservative because of quality concerns.

> Even if you do not decide to follow this way you could just create unofficial
> Opie images based on Angström without the need to create and maintain a new
> distribution.

  Well, we cannot create unofficial Angstrom images for OPIE, because
Angstrom doesn't support OPIE, period ;-). That would be impersonation
of the Angstrom distro.

  And yes, I argued to the maintainers that not supporting OPIE would
be keeping the situation of community split, instead of allowing to
gather it, but well, Angstrom strives for realistic goal of providing
quality distro with known good and supportable features. So, I was
quite transparently hinted that it's solely "brand contamination"
issue.

  And my plan would be exactly to clone (and follow) Angstrom distro
config under different name, to serve as incubator for OPIE support in
Angstrom. Well, I won't go for that myself (not at this time at
least), unless other people would be interested to work in this vein.

> Greetings

> Florian

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