Re: Opie's future

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On Wednesday 16 November 2005 17:22, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 16.11.2005, 09:12 -0500 schrieb Neuman, Ben J., A&M
>
> IRM:
> > I am a huge fan of the work you guys have done on Opie and am very sad to
> > hear it's future might be in jeopardy. Is this true?
>
> It is - somewhat - true. If you recapitulate the history of Opie you
> will notice that there was a time when we had ~20 contributors. Most of
> them have jumped ship due to several reasons. The most important ones
> are [in my subjective view of order of relevance]:
>
> * Sharp dropping the Zaurus from all but the japanese markets
> * Opie still using the (outdated) Qt/Embedded 2.3.x
> * OpenZaurus being binary incompatible with Qtopia apps
> * Opie and Qtopia diverging in source level APIs
> * No attractive Qtopia devices since years (Yes, I know about Olympus
> and Archos)
> * Unclear Opie roadmap, goals, and identity
>
> These reasons not only affected Opie directly but also third party
> authors writing applications based on the Qtopia API.
>
> Nowadays, a major part of the remaining Opie contributors seem to be
> more interested in going away from Qt/Embedded since a) X no longer is
> bloaty or slow compared to Qt/Embedded and b) a small community like us
> no longer can afford ruling out millions of applications just because of
> direct framebuffer access. Still we very much love Qt as an application
> development framework and want to continue using it.
>
> Personally, I consider Opie being more or less frozen except for
> bugfixes and perhaps additional device adaptions. I just can't stand the
> limitations of Qt 2.x any longer and I quit believing in the value of
> exclusive framebuffer access.
> That aside, I'm still very interested in writing open source software
> for mobile linux devices and I hope that -- after completing my Ph.D.
> next summer -- I can return to writing software for X11-based mobile
> devices using Qt/X11 4.x and/or Gtkmm/Hildon.
>
> The future of Linux on mobile devices has just begun and it's exciting
> to be a part of it.
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