[MeeGo-inputmethods] Maliit MeeGo packages current status

[Jon Nordby]

On 06/30/2011 05:14 PM, Luis Araujo wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> This is a brief update about the current status for our packages in MeeGo.
>
> We currently have the maliit-framework and maliit-plugins version 0.80.0
> packages inside MeeGo Trunk:Testing repository. These packages as
> previously announced[0] are introducing major changes, among them, new
> libraries names and paths.
>
> Initially I submitted the packages directly to the repository, marking
> as obsolete the respective meegotouch-inputmethodframework and
> meegotouch-inputmethodkeyboard packages in favour of our new maliit-*
> versions. But this caused some errors during image generation, since
> some packages are still evidently depending on the old library names,
> more specifically to libmeegoimframework.

Which packages depend on libmeegoimframework? Basically only input 
method plugins should depend on this library, and I am not aware of any 
other plugins used in MeeGo.com than the ones we provide.

> There seems to be no clear documented road to do this kind of migration,
> but my plan so far is to contact the developers/maintainers of the
> affected packages and work with them implementing the fixes, with an
> announcement here and in meego-{packaging,dev}@ if required. I am also
> thinking to raise up this issue in the TSG meetings, and see what we can
> come out with.
>
> Now, one important detail, we were told that there are no resources at
> this point to fix these packages in Trunk:Testing due to the upcoming
> tablet product launch, since most of the developers are focusing on that
> release, committing our changes or working out a solution might take a
> while. From release engineering, apparently they will get back to work
> in Trunk after the 1.2.0 update release after July 7th, so I guess
> around this time things might go bit slow.
>
> In a related note, the release plan for 1.3 was posted already[1]. We
> will have to implement these changes during the high risk intrusive
> phase due to:
>
> MM2: Jul 26 - Intrusive (high risk and priority) changes phase complete
>
> I will keep posted here about any progress, please if you have any
> question or doubt, let me know.

Thanks for the thorough update.

> Cheers,
>
> [0]
> http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/meego-inputmethods/2011-June/000157.html
> [1] http://wiki.meego.com/Release_Engineering/Plans/1.3
>
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