Re: [tuxdroid-user] Including dfu-programmer in tuxsetup

[David B. <da...@ja...>]

On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:04:49 +0200, neimad <ror...@gm...> wrote:

> What makes it hard for joe user to compile ? Couldn't it be seamlessly
> integrated in the "tuxup procedure" (neved used it) ?

Well, the feedback we get from the marketing is that a lot of geeks whiich  
are not programmers think tux is still at the prototype stage. Which  
somehow is ot wrong neither. I think that the next firmware update will be  
a good improvement mostly for the energy savings. But people are afraid  
when they read that the first thing you have to do is get the sources of  
dfu-programmer, compile it, then upgrade the firmware. Then we still don't  
have any real end user software with polished gui so that also makes them  
stay doubtful about the project status.

Most newbies are using ubuntu so maybe another solution would be to  
maintain a debian/ubuntu dfu-programmer package. I could also do an ebuild  
for gentoo but I don't think gentoo users will get trouble on that side.  
On ubuntu, you can't compile dfu-programmer without installing a bunch of  
developer packages like build-essentials, libusb-devel, etc. GCC isn't  
installed by default. It took me some time to look around the first time I  
used ubuntu to get all the dependencies necessary to compile. So I guess  
some users will really benefit from a package. Even worse it seems there's  
a debian package around which doesn't work, so some people end up there  
too.

Usually when I don't know what to do, I try to do both and check later on  
what's the best option. We can try to support dfu-programmer as packages  
for some distributions and also include it in tuxsetup. If it already  
exists on the system, it's not used, otherwise it tries to launch it, use  
it if it works or tell the user to compile from sources otherwise.

David