Re: Fwd: [Gpe] Re: planning for a GPE release

Am Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2002 10:08 schrieben Sie:
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> Subject: [Gpe] Re: planning for a GPE release
> Date: Wednesday 19 June 2002 01:12
> From: Nils Faerber <nils@kernelconcepts.de>
> To: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>
> Cc: nils@kernelconcepts.de, gpe@handhelds.org
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> On 31 May 2002 10:40:45 +0100
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> Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> wrote:
> > So, I think GPE now contains a reasonable amount of usable software.
> > Perhaps it's time to think about integrating this into some kind of
> > coherent whole and making a first release of the whole suite.
> >
> > Nils, what are your thoughts on that?
>
> Yeah, definetely!
> Though I am still, due to my sickness, bound to hospital without internet
> connection, so I will not be able to contribute much to it until the
> beginning of July :( What I would like to see in a release is not only
> correct packages, i.e. packages of all the stuff we have that install and
> work correctly, but also some modified packages from Familiar. Why?
> Because I think Familiar is very nice for development guys like us but much
> too bloated for users. And GPE aims at users not developers (at least in
> the long run). If you install a default Familiar with all the packages you
> need to get GPE running you will soon find that 16MB Flash are not very
> much! Or in other words your Flash will be almost full after install. I
> have started to tailor it down a bit by for example making extensive use of
> BusyBox. Using Busybox also required to modify some scripts because they
> rely on the GNU version of some utilities like sort, tail, head and so on,

If you had read the familiar ml you would have read my announcement of
busybox based familiar and familiar/OPIE root jffs2 images.
I already talked to a7r und he promised to include my patches to the various
scripts (at http://www.softforge.de/bb/) into the next release. I already
have a busybox CVS HEAD version running on my system for months, but a7r said
he will only accept it as part of familiar, if it is *optional* ... That
means ipkg has to have support for the "Provides" and "Conflicts" keywords,
which it currently does _not_ have.
So once ipkg has decent support for these there will be a bb ipkg and bb root
image ready.
BTW: Since I have write access to the BusyBox CVS, the CVS Head version was
greatly improved by me to implement many of those GNU features that are
needed by familiar.

> etc... Then I would also like to start including all those small misc fixes
> and modifications that can mostly be found in the Wiki, e.g. the USB
> networking hotplug scripts. This is really convenient! Just plug in your
> iPaq and you have instant network access. All this together could then

USB scripts are also part of my patches (see URL above)

> result in a first distribution. Oh well, maybe start step by step and first
> package all the GPE stuff up ;) Anyway, again thanks so much to everyone
> contributing to the project! I think we have found a very good approach and
> had a very promising and good start.
>
> > p.
>
> CU
> nils

BTW: I am not subscribed to the gpe ml .. please CC me or OPIE ml in replies.

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