Using Qt Creator with Scratchbox
Kate Alhola, in a Forum Nokia blog post, describes how to use the Qt Creator IDE (part of the Nokia Qt SDK, and the strategic way to develop MeeGo, Maemo and Symbian applications) with Scratchbox, the Linux based Maemo environment which allows much lower level development and integration: It may be one of most requested feature among advanced Maemo/MeeGo developers. Currently QtCreator from Nokia SDK does not support Scratchbox toolchain. Most of current experienced Maemo developers prefer scratchbox because it allows also development of complex applications that are using in Linux build tools and it allows running application under simulated ARM or x86 environment with full Maemo library and style support.
New draft of MeeGo Compliance Specification - still no third party dependencies
Mats Wichmann has unveiled the latest draft of the MeeGo Compliance Specification for comment. As the specification is due to be finalised with the MeeGo 1.1 release (which happens next week), there is very little time to read, mark, learn and comment on the draft. In posting the RFC, he addressed the issue of third-party dependencies: Note: last time, the issue of dependencies, or not, generated a lot of heat. This version states pretty clearly that dependencies outside the required minimum install are not allowed. That's simply the current direction, I can't predict if a future direction will expand the scope. The decision about non-core dependencies seems pretty fixed, with the suggestion of a working group (after MeeGo 1.1 has been released) to investigate how to solve the issues. The most discussion is revolving around how floating point instructions are handled on ARM - a decision which will have an impact on future backwards compatibility.