These days, money is everything. Especially in the software development world, it is often very important to get rich. And earn more. And more. And then our success is measured by how much we have earned. The size of our house. By how many cars we have.
Against this background, I just loved the post that Dana Blankenhorn posted today on their blog. This was such a refreshing post to read.
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Traditional wisdom says it’s all about resource constraints: Mobile devices have less memory, less storage space, less powerful CPU and a low-resolution screen. Nowadays, since my phone already has better specs than my laptop did just two years ago, I think this traditional wisdom has, for the most part, lost much of it’s wisdom.
What, then, is it, that makes these things different?
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Melas is an uncomplicated build and packaging tool used to compile software and create installable package files. Melas can be used to reliably reproduce builds and perform dependency tracking. Cross-compilation is supported through integration with Sbox2.
Melas v0.11.0, as released today, adds numerous small and large features. Most notably, the build system autodetection and autoconfiguration has been greatly improved (and Melas can now build most standard software packages without any further configuration). Detailed list of notable changes follows:
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I stumbled upon this page in the Openmoko Wiki: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/User:ThomasT. There’s a note made under the “Unsorted” heading: “I wonder what igelle is and whether it is worth trying that for FreeRunner. The website isn’t very informative“. This has reminded me that indeed I may have posted no information on what Igelle really is. I will try to fill that gap a little bit with this posting.
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Last may, I posted about the porting of Ubuntu to ARM through Nokia’s Mojo project. Now, six months later, Ubuntu ARM porting is again in the headlines but this time it’s Canonical, Ubuntu’s commercial entity, making the noise.
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