Hi,
I'm now into application testing on the SL-C3000 ROM and have the following observation to offer.
Applications for a Sharp rom
should install eveything into /opt/QtPalmtop, however, many don't and some create new areas under /home, like apache.
This offers a challenge to providing a seamless install on the SL-C3000 since /home lives in the limited user space of flash and it is often necessary to precreate directories elsewhere and create symbolic links from /home to these directories in order to ensure enough space to install.
Other problem areas could be too much data in the home directory - since /home/zaurus lives in flash too then there is quite a potential for this.
Generally moving the install path or symlinking to some area on /hdd2 or /hdd3 works quite well but I think it may be useful to create a 'pre-install' script that can be run to ensure application compatibility prior to installs.
Finally for applications targetting the clamshell environment there is the possibility of that application using an ATI W100 function that is not available to the SL-C3000/1000. We can't do much about that other than suggesting or embarking upon a rebuild.
I'll start the list...
mplayer-w100 - ATI dependent, use mplayer-bvdd or mplayer-noiwmmx.
kino2 - depends upon mplayer-w100, install from the command line and use ipkg -force-depends to avoid issue.
apache-php from the Cacko feed - installs to /home/www and is too big to fit in flash, needs some symlinks to make the install work... working on this at present.
BTW: Please list an absolute URL to the ipk if possible... all the above are on the Cacko feed so for example apache-php would be...
http://cacko.biz/cacko/feed/apache-1.3.27-...2.3_0.2_arm.ipk- Andy
