Re: Opie and OpenEmbedded

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> Saturday, October 14, 2006, 1:43:11 PM, you wrote:
> 
> []
> 
>> I'd like to encourage someone of the active Opie developers
>> to take care about everything Opie (and consequently Qt/Embedded)
>> in OpenEmbedded.
> 
>   As promised, maintenance plan I would like to adhere to:
> 
> 1. Ensure that OPIE packages and rootfs builds correctly in OE.dev,
> including working on support for new/different versions of GCC,
> packaging peculiarities, etc.
> 
> 2. Work towards adding OPIE support in Angstrom.
> 
> 3. Working with port maintainers towards adding support for more
> machines to OPIE.
> 
> 4. Work on establishing guidelines for machine support. In
> particular, I'm not going to accept any patches blindly. Existing
> machines support needs cleanup, too. Of course, this includes making
> patches for libopie2 (at least), so I'm going to collaborate with OPIE
> maintainers on that.

see below.

> 
> 5. More higher-level and longer-term goal is getting rid of as much
> machine-dependent packages for OPIE as possible. This might include
> reworking means to support/configure different machines by means of
> declarative configs, instead of being hardcoded into the C++ code.

All of this is going to change with the upcoming qtopia 4 gpl release. 
Use the tag BEFORE_LJP_UPDATE because I plan on demolishing main.

In Qtopia 4 (soon to be Opie II - or whatever people call it), there is 
a devices/ directory which can contain device specific code that gets 
used in place of the default files in the tree. Configurable with 
-device example

like this:

in devices/example/

config.pri  configure  custom.cpp  custom.h  defaultbuttons.conf 
DESCRIPTION  mkspecs  README.txt  src

./mkspecs:
qws

./mkspecs/qws:
linux-example-g++

./mkspecs/qws/linux-example-g++:
qmake.conf  qplatformdefs.h

./src:
plugins  projects.pri  src.pro  tree_config.pri

./src/plugins:
plugins.pro  qtopiacore

./src/plugins/qtopiacore:
kbddrivers  mousedrivers  qtopiacore.pro

./src/plugins/qtopiacore/kbddrivers:
example  kbddrivers.pro

./src/plugins/qtopiacore/kbddrivers/example:
examplekbddriverplugin.cpp  examplekbddriverplugin.h 
examplekbdhandler.cpp  examplekbdhandler.h  example.pro

./src/plugins/qtopiacore/mousedrivers:
example  mousedrivers.pro

./src/plugins/qtopiacore/mousedrivers/example:
examplemousedriverplugin.cpp  examplemousedriverplugin.h 
examplemousehandler.cpp  examplemousehandler.h  example.pro


because every device is different. Its unnecessary to have every build 
have every device built in.




> 
> 6. Process bugreports/maillist traffic as standard part of maintenance
> work. This is of course the most "tough" part ;-), but I'm on the OPIE
> MLs/OE.dev bug notice ML for some time now, and that traffic does not
> seem to be high.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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