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[f69m <launchpad@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve,

On 01/21/2014 09:25 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:02:39AM +0100, f69m wrote:
> > For us porters it would be nice to have at least one image with SF
> > working as an important step before even thinking of tackling mir.
> I think SF is a crutch that at this point isn't actually helping porters
> with bootstrapping of Ubuntu Touch.  Mir is better supported, and the
> integration requirements for Mir vs. SF are largely the same -
> so I don't see any reason that it makes sense for porters to bring up SF,
> which has a lot more Android baggage to get in the way, instead of going
> straight for Mir.

Yes, meanwhile I agree. Somewhere on the list I had read that making mir 
work might require a lot of porting, that's why SF seemed a reasonable 
first step. But seems that was exaggerated; mir is more or less working 
for me now. :)

> > Just got Ubuntu and Android booting and now the image is broken...
> > :'(
> Yes, the image was broken because we're trying to be too clever in
> supporting both Mir and SF.  If we dropped SF support entirely, this
> particular breakage wouldn't have happened.

Well, the last one or two days converted me: SF didn't work and mir now 
(almost) works for my TF300T.
So yeah, probably a good idea to drop SF support.

Thanks, you are all doing a marvelous job!