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[Zoltán Balogh <zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/09/2013 08:12 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> On Di, 2013-04-09 at 19:57 +0300, Zoltán Balogh wrote:
> ...
> > Actually it is not that difficult and we have good tools. The pkgme,
> > pbuilder and the dozen of wrapper apps make packaging simple.
> >
> > But regardless how good wrappers and how well automated toolchain we
> > invent to make it even more simple the developer still need to have the
> > information for the control file and at least have some idea what
> > license is the best for the application.
> is there any reason to build the package (instead of uploading it to a
> PPA) ?
> all my above comments in this thread were solely referring to create a
> source package once you are done with programming and have a ready to
> run app (that you tested in qmlscene or by using a device (or even by
> using a yet to come emulator) in an unpackaged manner ...
>
> there should be no need at all to build a binary package locally ... our
> sdk should just make sure a source package is created and probably have
> a "publish to PPA" button where the binary package then gets built ...
>
> *if* someone wants to do a local build i would consider that an advanced
> task for which you can indeed use a pbuilder or some such ... generally
> creating a *source* package should be completely arch agnostic though
> and easy to automate from the sdk ...
>
> ciao
> 	oli

Using PPAs for crossbuilding is a great feature of the Ubuntu ecosystem. 
No doubt about it. But uploading to a PPA and apt-geting the ready 
package is significantly slower than local crossbuilding.

In general I agree with you. The order of possibilities are the following:
1. stick to QML/JS, so you will not even hear about the problem of cross 
build
2. do your app on your PC and when it is ready just create the source 
package and upload to a PPA. This feature will come to the SDK tools 
latest in October this year.
3. if you have no armhf PPA acces or you are not happy with the 
performance of the PPA build use the device for building the binary 
package. This feature is already available in the SDK
4. In case you still do not want to use the PPAs for build and you do 
not have access to an armhf device use the pbuilder based tool what will 
come with the SDK at later point
5. If you can not or do not want to do any of these join to the 
#ubuntu-touch channel and reach out for help. I am sure somebody will 
offer hand for packaging.


bzoltan