Re: Re[2]: [H2200-port] keboard, brightness with opie on h2200

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 05:54 +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> > That's not true. To my knowledge the only thing left that's missing
> > in Opie is keyboard/hardware buttons support for the 2.6 iPAQs.
> 
> > This is a problem with Opie btw, not Familiar.
> 
>   Well, but how to fix it it depends on Familiar. Opie versioning
> scheme, based on the idea that each package has version == Opie's
> version, in fact confuses the matters in this situation. For libopie2,
> almost the only changes that happen are additions of new devices
> support. That means that 1.2.2 tag of it just has more devices
> supporte than 1.2.1. But as Familiar 0.8.4 comes with Opie 1.2.1, it
> uses libopie2 1.2.1, plus some patches to it. How well these patches
> do, can be seen from reports for both h2200 & hx4700 that keys don't
> work.

Please try to stay fair and actually look at the code before making
such comments. We've been in sync with libopie2 HEAD for quite a while
now as far as ODevice for h2200 or hx4700 is concerned. There are no
improvements for key handling on those devices in CVS.

As far as the rest of ODevice for iPAQs is concerned, HEAD is actually
a regression compared to what's in Familiar. The corresponding patches
have either been ignored or turned down on opie-devel.

The underlying problem appears to be that there's little to no interest
among Opie core developers to support the new iPAQs. We're trying to
compensate for that but, unsurprisingly, it's difficult to replace
proper upstream support.

>   So, would you consider switching Familiar to use 1.2.2 of libopie2 (yet
> better, even more recent CVSDATE)?

No. That would be pointless as far as ODevice is concerned. Upgrading
any core library at this stage in the release cycle would be foolish
anyway. Non-intrusive patches that address specific problems will be
accepted.

Rene

-- 
Rene Wagner
rw at handhelds dot org
4F33 7FD7 93B3 166B BADA  D6F8 71A1 FEA8 58B4 36D0

_______________________________________________

http://opie.handhelds.org/cgi-bin/moin.cgi/DeveloperWikiIndex

Opie-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://handhelds.org/mailman/listinfo/opie-devel

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBEx3OpcaH+qFi0NtARAvQYAJ4+K1T32r/3tq/6fSeA2lfks6g86wCeLgwo
CNaCopzRSQSml5OVP9cENmQ=
=855f
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----