Re: MeeGo support in OE

[Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>]

On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 12:56 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 25-06-10 09:01, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> > My investigations for a 'colorful' embedded environment lead me to Meego (http://meego.com/).
> > 
> > On the webpage we learn that this is a platform independent environment but there are only few platforms supported (Nokia N900 / Beaglebord / few Intel netbooks).
> > 
> > To have full platform-independency I would like to have Meego (maybe parts of it only) within OE and started already with easiest part uxlaunch (very tiny dm - see 
> > git://gitorious.org/meego-os-base/uxlaunch.git). This is already tested with xfce environment but before posting a patch here I would like to do some further tests with gnome/enlightenment and 
> > see what happens in case another dm is found in the image. 
> > 
> > Next step planned is mutter. Here I would like to use the original gnome sources and check the diffs to meego branch.
> > 
> > Now my questions:
> > 
> > - Are there any objections including meego parts (licensing / don't like Intel/Nokia..) in OE
> > - Are there already proceedings related to mutter ongoing? Or is there a reason that mutter is not in OE other than nobody has done so far?
> 
> I didn't add mutter because at the time it didn't build against
> clutter/gles. It think that has changed now :)
> 
> I would very much like to build meego components in OE!

You could do worse than look at meta-moblin in Poky which has recipes
for some components like mutter.

Cheers,

Richard