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Originally Posted by andriko
heh - cool !!!!
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Yeah, I think so too. Not as much what I did, but what the new dev. kit allows me to do. I've just spent a few hours looking at it so far, but already I've discovered that the ncurses build that I distributed may be flawed(*), I've recompiled it, re-installed it using the new package system, and then compiled and installed vim with just a few easily solved problems. Finally a real "vi" instead of the brain-dead version that's part of busybox!(**) :-) All in a few hours time and starting with near-zero prior knowledge of openembedded. The future indeed looks bright for independant developers!
-- noggie
(*) I compiled the cdk (just to see if I could) in mid-November. Since then, the glibc has been upgraded. Seems that something in libncurses are dependant on the exact version of glibc used. Since glibc was upgraded and recompiled in my late December build, while ncurses wasn't, "vim" wouldn't link properly. Can't see this problem with any of the installed packages, and it's simple enough to recompile ncurses and install it using the "ipkg" system.
(**) To make the comparison between busybox-vi and vim fair, it must be mentioned that vim alone is 50% larger than the whole of busybox. And that's without the needed support libraries and files...