Meego SDK installation

[Stephen Feyrer]

Hi.


From the little I've learned about Meego in the news, enticing application
developers to the Meego platform has been difficult. Now follows my rant (sorry
if you're easily offended)...

I can't get the Meego SDK to install, this isn't very surprising when you
realise I'm not running Windows or Fedora or Ubuntu or Debian. I use Gentoo.
I'm not asking why isn't my distribution supported (yet?), it shouldn't need to
be. The Android SDK integrates seamlessly with Eclipse and works with other
Software IDEs. I have already run "Hello World" on an Android Virtual Device
(AVD).

Aside from not being able to install the Meego SDK the request for root
privileges is rather disconcerting. It almost put me off there and then. Just
the thought of an armv7tej-unknown-linux-gnueabi glibc over-righting my glibc
that's the stuff of nightmares! The request for root privileges appears to be
to allow the installer application to use the system tools of a host
environment. As Meego is touted as a fully fledged operating system then
wouldn't you want to be able to use a Meego System as a development environment?
Please rethink your installer, this looks rather poor to me.

On to my question, can you help me install the Meego SDK please?


--
Hoping you're not too jaded from my rant

Stephen.

P.s. I started my Meego/Android app development quest yesterday.

[Xavier Hallade]

Hi,

You mistunderstood the state of Meego SDK : It's a "preview".
There's still a lot of work needed.
I'm running archlinux which is not supported too... you can use a chroot
or a VirtualBox waiting the things to get better.

I think root privileges are needed because it uses the package manager
with specific repos to install most of the SDK and it will probably not
needed in future releases.

ph0b.

Post by Stephen Feyrer
Hi.
From the little I've learned about Meego in the news, enticing
application developers to the Meego platform has been difficult. Now
follows my rant (sorry if you're easily offended)...
I can't get the Meego SDK to install, this isn't very surprising when
you realise I'm not running Windows or Fedora or Ubuntu or Debian. I
use Gentoo. I'm not asking why isn't my distribution supported
(yet?), it shouldn't need to be. The Android SDK integrates
seamlessly with Eclipse and works with other Software IDEs. I have
already run "Hello World" on an Android Virtual Device (AVD).
Aside from not being able to install the Meego SDK the request for
root privileges is rather disconcerting. It almost put me off there
and then. Just the thought of an armv7tej-unknown-linux-gnueabi glibc
over-righting my glibc that's the stuff of nightmares! The request
for root privileges appears to be to allow the installer application
to use the system tools of a host environment. As Meego is touted as
a fully fledged operating system then wouldn't you want to be able to
use a Meego System as a development environment? Please rethink your
installer, this looks rather poor to me.
On to my question, can you help me install the Meego SDK please?
--
Hoping you're not too jaded from my rant
Stephen.
P.s. I started my Meego/Android app development quest yesterday.
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[Stephen Feyrer]

Hi.


Admittedly, I've just looked at all the pages I went through to download the SDK
and none of them mention it being a preview. Otherwise I take your point.

From google to:
https://meego.com/developers
https://meego.com/downloads/releases/1.2/meego-v1.2-sdk
http://developer.meego.com/meego-sdk
http://developer.meego.com/guides/getting-started/getting-started-meego-v1.2-sdk-linux


With regard to the root privileges I think your right. Chroot and VirtualBox
sound to much like hard work at the moment so I'm going to give wine a try...
Nearly a Canadian Cross but not quite.

I may try a chroot or VirtualBox another time.

Wine might take a while so I'll have to report any progress or success or more
likely failure later.

Thanks for the info.

--
Kind regards

Stephen.



________________________________
From: Xavier Hallade <xh-***@public.gmane.org>
To: meego-sdk-***@public.gmane.org
Cc: steve-***@public.gmane.org.uk
Sent: Wednesday, 25 May, 2011 21:04:02
Subject: Re: [MeeGo-SDK] Meego SDK installation

Hi,

You mistunderstood the state of Meego SDK : It's a "preview".
There's still a lot of work needed.
I'm running archlinux which is not supported too... you can use a chroot or
a VirtualBox waiting the things to get better.

I think root privileges are needed because it uses the package manager with
specific repos to install most of the SDK and it will probably not needed in
future releases.

ph0b.

Le 25/05/2011 21:54, Stephen Feyrer a écrit :
Hi.

From the little I've learned about Meego in the news, enticing
application developers to the Meego platform has been difficult.
Now follows my rant (sorry if you're easily offended)...
I can't get the Meego SDK to install, this isn't very surprising
when you realise I'm not running Windows or Fedora or Ubuntu or
Debian. I use Gentoo. I'm not asking why isn't my distribution
supported (yet?), it shouldn't need to be. The Android SDK
integrates seamlessly with Eclipse and works with other Software
IDEs. I have already run "Hello World" on an Android Virtual
Device (AVD).
Aside from not being able to install the Meego SDK the request
for root privileges is rather disconcerting. It almost put me
off there and then. Just the thought of an
armv7tej-unknown-linux-gnueabi glibc over-righting my glibc
that's the stuff of nightmares! The request for root privileges
appears to be to allow the installer application to use the
system tools of a host environment. As Meego is touted as a
fully fledged operating system then wouldn't you want to be able
to use a Meego System as a development environment? Please
rethink your installer, this looks rather poor to me.
On to my question, can you help me install the Meego SDK

please?

--
Hoping you're not too jaded from my rant
Stephen.
P.s. I started my Meego/Android app development quest
yesterday.
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[Stephen Feyrer]

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Sent: Wednesday, 25 May, 2011 23:24:35
Subject: Re: [MeeGo-SDK] Meego SDK installation


Hi.


Admittedly, I've just looked at all the pages I went through to download the SDK
and none of them mention it being a preview. Otherwise I take your point.

From google to:
https://meego.com/developers
https://meego.com/downloads/releases/1.2/meego-v1.2-sdk
http://developer.meego.com/meego-sdk
http://developer.meego.com/guides/getting-started/getting-started-meego-v1.2-sdk-linux


With regard to the root privileges I think your right. Chroot and VirtualBox
sound to much like hard work at the moment so I'm going to give wine a try...
Nearly a Canadian Cross but not quite.

I may try a chroot or VirtualBox another time.

Wine might take a while so I'll have to report any progress or success or more
likely failure later.

Thanks for the info.

--
Kind regards

Stephen.



________________________________
From: Xavier Hallade <xh-***@public.gmane.org>
To: meego-sdk-***@public.gmane.orgm
Cc: steve-SIV1roocybn10XsdtD+***@public.gmane.org
Sent: Wednesday, 25 May, 2011 21:04:02
Subject: Re: [MeeGo-SDK] Meego SDK installation

Hi,

You mistunderstood the state of Meego SDK : It's a "preview".
There's still a lot of work needed.
I'm running archlinux which is not supported too... you can use a chroot or
a VirtualBox waiting the things to get better.

I think root privileges are needed because it uses the package manager with
specific repos to install most of the SDK and it will probably not needed in
future releases.

ph0b.

Le 25/05/2011 21:54, Stephen Feyrer a écrit :
Hi.

From the little I've learned about Meego in the news, enticing
application developers to the Meego platform has been difficult.
Now follows my rant (sorry if you're easily offended)...
I can't get the Meego SDK to install, this isn't very surprising
when you realise I'm not running Windows or Fedora or Ubuntu or
Debian. I use Gentoo. I'm not asking why isn't my distribution
supported (yet?), it shouldn't need to be. The Android SDK
integrates seamlessly with Eclipse and works with other Software
IDEs. I have already run "Hello World" on an Android Virtual
Device (AVD).
Aside from not being able to install the Meego SDK the request
for root privileges is rather disconcerting. It almost put me
off there and then. Just the thought of an
armv7tej-unknown-linux-gnueabi glibc over-righting my glibc
that's the stuff of nightmares! The request for root privileges
appears to be to allow the installer application to use the
system tools of a host environment. As Meego is touted as a
fully fledged operating system then wouldn't you want to be able
to use a Meego System as a development environment? Please
rethink your installer, this looks rather poor to me.
On to my question, can you help me install the Meego SDK

please?

--
Hoping you're not too jaded from my rant
Stephen.
P.s. I started my Meego/Android app development quest
yesterday.
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