Re: My resignation

Dnia poniedziałek, 4 czerwca 2007, Shawn Rutledge napisał:

> So Opie seemed like a good idea to me in principle, but only if it
> doesn't stagnate, so that eventually enough apps will be developed to
> keep most of the users satisfied;

OPIE is stagnated for atleast year. No new apps for two years.

> as opposed to just directly running the same desktop apps on the
> PDA. However, this approach has more overhead, and needs to be
> supported by a group of developers who believe in it.

OPIE had such group of developers when it was started as project.

> And the task is made easier for QT apps because porting to QTopia isn't
> as hard as porting some arbitrary X application to some arbitrary new
> toolkit.

There is no QT2/X11 apps anymore. Porting QT3 based apps to OPIE require
creating 'qt2 support' libraries such as microkde, microkdelibs,
microkdepim and removing some functionality due lack of support for some
things in qt2/embedded (built without threading for example).

World of QT2/Embedded is over. There can be some specialized hardware
using QT2/E or QT3/E but those are devices where user is not allowed to
install any extra software.

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