I think that should be the preferred option, or risk of incompatibilities will rise.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Dmitry <energyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > As i understand Sailfish OS in based on Mer, difference is very small ~10 > rpm packages. > Why we can`t just use same packages that will be in Sailfish Emulator of > Beta SDK? > > > On 18 July 2013 19:03, Andrea Bernabei <and.berna...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello guys :) >> >> We all know Sailfish has moved to Wayland and will use Wayland by default >> in its first phone :) >> >> The time has come for us to start moving Nemo to Wayland as well! >> >> This will give us the opportunity to use the same middleware Jolla is >> currently using, and it's our chance to switch to Qt5 and be as connected >> to Sailfish OS development as possible! >> >> For the N9/N950 users: if you want to have the chance of seeing Sailfish >> OS on your phone, please note that THIS is the way to go! No Wayland on >> Nemo, no chance of having Sailfish on your phone! ;) Just to make things >> clear :D >> >> So...what's the plan? >> >> Yesterday I started working on making a Nemo VM i486 image which is as >> Qt4-free as possible, and uses Wayland by default. >> >> You can see the current status of this transition to Wayland here >> https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Wayland_Nemo_VM_Image >> >> Stskeeps suggested starting from the VM as it has a stable hardware >> adaptation, we can do Wayland images for the other platforms later on >> (n9/n950 anyone? :D) >> >> Also, this whole Wayland/Qt5 thing is needed before we start implementing >> stuff for the new Nemo UI (which is Glacier UI, at the moment), as it >> wouldn't make sense to implement stuff in Qt4/X11 now and then port >> everything to Qt5/Wayland shortly after that, right? :D >> >> After fixing all the needed bits on the wiki page (i.e. look for all the >> Qt4 and Qt4-dependent packages we can get rid of, and write down which of >> those can be replaced with their Qt5 ports) we have to change stuff in >> Nemo's boot process (which is using systemd) so that the new qt5 services >> are used, and the Wayland compositor is run at startup, instead of the >> current X11 compositor. >> >> I know little about systemd at the moment, I'll start researching as I'm >> done with the packages stuff...If you can help with systemd or can boost my >> systemd knowledge, please contact me! :) >> >> People from Jolla are already helping me, but they're often busy with >> other stuff, and I can't waste too much of their time on this, I want them >> to focus on Sailfish :D >> >> So please bookmark the page I created, and if you want to help please >> come talk to me at #nemomobile on IRC :) >> >> This is all, >> have a nice evening people! >> >> >> faenil >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >> > > > _______________________________________________ > SailfishOS.org Devel mailing list >
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