Developing and Deploying devices

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 05:22:30PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > 
> > I really like the idea that we don't need to re-invent any of that infrastructure
> > and can simply re-use what NextThing is working on already - which to me
> > makes this so attractive to use the CHIP
> 
> Wow, basically the CRX contains the flasher app (mac executeable in OSX
> case), thus this is platform specific contains all the right bits to
> access USB, and that is it, that you just download through Chrome.
> 
> Flashing does take ~12 mins apparently, dropping to 9 mins, and then
> getting stuck... mmmm

It's early Alpha :-)

> If they have a 'store' of apps there, (like the headless version) then
> we are done, that is EXACTLY what we need. We then just need the ability
> to give them updates (hopefully PGP signed!) images once in a while.
> (read: when libdivecomputer gets support for a new DC or a major fix etc).

My thought entirely

> From a developer perspective though, it will still mean Debian packages
> that we install on top of the latest image of their default image.
> (unless people want to live with 'make install', which works, but is
> icky imho ;)

If by "icky" you mean "that actually works and gives us full control of
what we build, without having to wait for Debian to pick up the right
version of whatever library we built on top of", then yes, I agree :-)

/D