[Opie-devel] opieII svn

[Nicolas FR]

Hi!

First let me introduce myself: I am a Zaurus user for less than a year
and for different reasons still using Cacko ROM ie qtopia 1.5. I have
used OPIE for a few months and was quite happy with it.

I am not a true developer like most of the people here but I have been
doing some few hacks under Qtopia 1.5 like playing with Python, PyQT
and Python Wireless extensions, adapting some QPE apps to run under
640x480 screen, and more recently (this week) backporting wpa-gui to
run under Qtopia 1.5 / Opie.

Now let's go to the reason of my post! I have been watching all the
threads about Qtopia 4.2 GPL and birth of OPIE II but I feel a little
bit confused of what "OPIE II" is or should be. Indeed I have
downloaded and built Qtopia 4.2 on my desktop computers and launched
it. I saw that the "desktop" approach under Qtopia 4.2 is very
different of what it was with Qtopia 1.5 / Opie. I have to admit that
for the Zaurus I do prefer the older desktop approach that was used in
original Qtopia 1.x / Opie; But my experience of this week (porting
wpa-gui to Qtopia 1.5) made me understand that it would have been much
more easier to do if I were compiling against Qtopia Core 4.x libs (I
am right here?).

So the question is: what is "Opie 2"? I which it were a port of
current Opie to Qtopia Core 4.x, but it seems it's not. So is it
Qtopia 4.2 GPL with some modifications and if so:
- what would be those modifications?
- Is it using a more traditional desktop approach like in original
Opie / Qtopia 1.x ?
- If it's not the above, what's the point in making a fork of Qtopia 4.2 GPL?

One of my underlying question is: would it be possible to compile
Qtopia Core 4.x libs and run apps build against it under Qtopia 1.x /
Opie? I guess the answer is no here, but I don't know / understand
why.

Anyway good luck for the project and long life Opie / Opie II.

Nicolas.

On 12/31/06, Lorn Potter <lpotter at trolltech.com> wrote:
> ok, folks.
> After finding a bug with svn and not commiting large directory trees, I
> have added qtopia 4.2.
> I have also added a few apps I created for the greenphone.
> and started work on an opie theme, and as well opie-izing sysinfo.