User talk:Peterschneider/develop overview

The Maemo garage provides hosting services to get contribution to your application project from experienced developers. While your application might be still be in alpha quality, the first technology-savvy people start using your application. Once your application is maturing, achieves beta quality, and is easy to install to a device, then you can post it to the Application Catalog on maemo.org.

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The Maemo garage provides hosting services to enable contributions to your project from experienced developers. While your application is still alpha quality the first technology-savvy people can start building and using your application. Once your application has matured, reached beta quality, and is easy to install to a device, then you can submit it for inclusion to the Application Catalog on maemo.org. Adding your application to the Application Catalog is done via a system that ensures a certain level of quality assurance and availability of source code (Extras and Extras-devel repositories).

--trickie 10:51, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


The paragraph starting "Starting to develop applications for Maemo is easy..." could be more technically correct i think...

  • The SDK is a suite of tools
  • Scratchbox is a cross-compilation environment, that provides a GNU toolchain and debugging tools for both the ARM and x86 architectures
  • The Maemo SDK also provides additional development and debugging tools and apt-based package management, on top of those provided by Scratchbox
  • Applications can run in an emulated ARM/x86 user-space environment, with some limitations/differences accounting for hardware/architecture.

--trickie 11:02, 19 June 2008 (UTC)