Re: Opie's future

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On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 01:12 am, Holger Freyther
wrote:
> Am 19.11.2005 um 08:45 schrieb Lorn Potter:
> > It works both ways. Trolltech created this
mailing list for better
> > communications. I know of no Trolls that
have asked to be
> > unsubscribed from
> > it.
>
> ...
>
> please publish the mailing list archive (I'm
asking again..). Let
> people decide
> if the discussions were fruitful...

It is an internal mailinglist. If you dont want
to use it thats fine, but do not accuse
Trolltech of not wanting to cooperate.

>
> >> last time I rsycned Qtopia, it was Qtopia 1.7.
> >
> > last GPL release was 2.1.1, not sure about
any of your rsync method
> > failings.
> > Perhaps you should download it like regular,
ftp style.
>
> well I rsync Qt 4.1 snapshots daily, but why
is Qtopia limited to 1.7
> and not 2.1?
> The only answer is with Qt you want people to
test and report issues,
> with Qtopia
> 2.1 you do not want that (for whatever
reasons...).

2.1 is right there in the ftp server. I dont
know why your rsync isn't working, I don't use
it, and I don't think we support rsync.



> > Its not yet available, it's still in
development. As you may or may
> > not know,
> > 'porting' from Qt 2 to Qt 4 is a very BIG
job. Which is why I am
> > suggesting
> > Opie use Qtopia 4.
>
> Lorn I really hate to repeat myself. I have
lost the trust in the people
> building Qtopia. The platform has so many
flaws, the applications have
> many flaws and short comings,

this is just FUD.  I take it that maemo has no
bugs then. Opie and Kde either, cause all of
them are just exactly perfect.

> there a couple of wild bugs in the code.
> And worst I have stopped reporting the issues
as one gets no feedback
> at all (not via bug reporting, not via opie
forum..)



> > This is an issue of optimizations. 4.1 is
better. As any .0
> > release, you
> > should except bugs and such.
>
> Well that is my point. Qt 4 was carefully
designed and implementation
> can always be tuned.

my point was that software takes a long time.

> >> PS: Do not worry, new stuff will not be
named Opie
> >
> > hmmm. ok. so, where are your specifications?
where is your roadmap?
> > and how
> > about your development? where's that at?
>
> you will see it soon (once it is finished), as
my day job is
> attending University.

ahh.. so you criticize Trolltech for not having
more open development, open roadmap, open this
and that, but you yourself do not have open
development on whatever project you are working
on.




-- 
Lorn 'ljp' Potter
Trolltech Qtopia Community Manager
Opie Core Developer
http://qtopia.net




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