Mike Doody wrote:

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> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Marcus Bauer  wrote:

>> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 17:27 +0200, Francesco Cat wrote:

>>> I must have missed something... Can you post some links to explain

>>> what are the future plans for the Software Stack? Will GTK not be

>>> present any more?

>> Basically Openmoko has stopped the development of the GTK stack in order

>> to start a new stack called ASU. There are some 10.000 developers for

>> GTK who can start any time making software for the Neo while there are

>> very few developers for ASU, maybe 50. ASU is only used on the Neo

>> whereas your GTK apps will run on the desktop or on the new MID devices

>> like the ASUS eeePC right out of the box. Naturally for an open source

>> developer it is a difference if the software will run on some hundred

>> Neos or on some million PCs and MIDs.

>>

>

> I'm confused what this ASU stack is that you are talking about?

A Qtpia build based on X11. (Qtopia is usually framebuffer)

Fancy enlightenment launcher and applications menu.

Qtopia base apps.

And some individual new apps only seen on this platform. i think based

on enlightenment APIs.

> I see

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> Gtk+ and Qtopia and Enlightenment  (and X11).

Which is what ASU is composed of. ;)
> So this ASU stack is only used on the Neo and nowhere else?
More or less the other way. It only works well on Freerunner.

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> If ASU is

> Qtopia or EFL, then I'm not so sure that's true...

It's both.

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