Every since the Maemo Chinook beta was relased, people have been asking
when we're going to make
Pimlico
packages available. I'll skip over the fact that Pimlico is open source,
so building a package yourself is trivial (I suppose its a good thing that
there are users who can't do that!).
Now, Pimlico consists of Contacts, Dates and Tasks. Contacts doesn't have
a Maemo port as such and the device already has an addressbook of sorts,
so I tend to leave that until last. That leaves Dates and Tasks, both of
which require an all-new Evolution Data Server to be built, because Nokia
strip down EDS for Maemo and don't install the calendar component to save
disk space. This generally shouldn't be a problem as we've been building
replacement EDS packages for some time now which adds the calendar
component and restores some functionality to the common libraries. So,
Rob set about re-syncing our
packaging with the Chinook EDS (there are several Maemo-specfic patches we
obviously need to include) and started a build. Then our plan started to
fall apart.
To cut a long story short, the Chinook's Application Manager has an
additional sanity check which wasn't in previous releases. The gist of it
appears to be that a package
foo from repository
A cannot upgrade package
foo from repository
B. Or,
libebook from
maemo.org cannot be
upgraded to
libebook from
o-hand.com. I can see how
this can stop people accidently breaking their device by installing broken
core packages, but it's also stopping us provide core packages with
enhanced functionality.
Never fear, we have a plan. It's not incredibly pretty and will take a
day or so of tiresome recompiles to get working, but we'll get there.
That said, we've all been busy and now it is the Christmas holiday... so I
wouldn't bet on being able to run Dates and Tasks on your N800/N810 before
the new year.
As a reward for patience, however, there are Contacts 0.8 packages for
Chinook in
our repository.
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