[Voyage-linux] SDK survey

[Darshaka Pathirana]

Hi Punky!

On 17.06.2009 17:20, Punky Tse wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever tried the SDK?  I would like to gather your feedback and
> experience on using SDK.  Any idea for further improvement are much
> appreciated.  Thanks.

Yes. I use your SDK based on Debian Live. Very nice work, thank you!

The work with Debian Live is straight forward so there is nothing to
  criticise but I have some suggestions:

* What about using Mercurial as VCS instead of SVN? I have a few
local modifications which would not fit to your mainline but it
would be way easier to colaborate and stay in sync with Mercurial.
(Git would also be a option but I think Mercurial is much easier for
people who are used to the SVN-Workflow.
I already converted the SVN-Repository locally to Hg using this
documentation:

[1] http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/ConvertingSvnToHg

* What about publishing the voyage-utils to SVN or Hg like the
Debian guys?

[2] http://hg.debian.org/hg/
[3] http://svn.debian.org/

The packages are then built with hg-buildpackage or svn-buildpackage.

I think this would increase transperancy and would also let the
community better help you.

* I tried to build some kernel modules with module-assistant but
failed because of missing linux-headers (and linux-souces) of the
voyage-kernel. It would be really nice if you could upload them to
the repository (you need the kernel_headers and kernel_source target
for make-kpkg).

* at.voyage.hk can not be found (altough voyage.x-rayted.at is online.)

* I added the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://www.voyage.hk/dists/experimental ./
deb http://www.voyage.hk/dists/0.6 ./
deb-src http://www.voyage.hk/dists/experimental ./
deb-src http://www.voyage.hk/dists/0.6 ./

When doing

% apt-get source voyage-util

I get a "voyage-util_0.6.orig.tar.gz 404 Not found". After removing
the "experimental" line I can retrieve the source. I think there is
something wrong...

* Is there some kind of Bug-Tracker? I wonder what prevents you from
releasing voyage 0.6.x. Are there any release critical issues open?

Puh! I actually just wanted to say "thank you" but I felt to tell
you the problems and fellings I've had so far. I hope thats ok and I
would love to hear your comments.

Greetings & thx for your work,
 - Darsha