[MeeGo-dev] Meego spec - for comment

[kate.alhola at nokia.com]

On Sep 16, 2010, at 3:05 AM, ext quim.gil at nokia.com<mailto:quim.gil at nokia.com> wrote:


The MeeGo commercial offering doesn't *require* Extras but can benefit from a successful Extras anyway. Letting Extras out of the Compliance program makes sense, especialy now that the comercial part still needs to be created and consolidated.

Please explain, how leaving extras out helps consolidate, it is mode fragmenting. If you say that there may not be one lib X in extras but rather
multiple copies of lib X maintained all app developers, how it helps consolidate ? If app needs lib X it does not help any bit saying that
they should fake it not being lib but just part of app.

Let's get one other view, and look also to back to history. Platform can't be ready in day one. There will be new needs and new innovations.
Some of them begin their live in extras, some of them will be approved to be part of future platform versions.  All innovation is not centralized
into Nokia and Intel, lot of it happens in community and independent communities. No one can predict what they will be.  We just can
imagine game engines, physics libraries, image processing libraries, augmented reality libraries, voice synthesizers and recognition,
you name it.

I think that it's best to everyone that these libraries will be one maintained and quality controlled version in Extras and that also helps
pick these ones that will be part of future versions of platform.  Other questions is that is there sense to have even all these
libraries always in base platform at all. Is there any sense have game engines in dedicated car computer or GPS device as mandatory part ?

Kate
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