After receiving feedback from the community, including developers who are trying to get their software into Ovi Store, it is the opinion of the Council that the unexplained restriction on dependencies between Ovi and Extras - and in particular the availability of Python as a platform for Ovi Store applications - represents a serious threat to the success of Maemo, MeeGo and Ovi Store.
It will come as a surprise for many community members and users that
Python is still not an officially supported language/runtime on the Maemo nor
MeeGo platforms, despite the huge number of* Python applications currently
in Extras, and even though they base on the work of Nokia's own PyMaemo
team, plus two Qt bindings and a GTK+/Hildon one. To put things in
perspective, about a third of ALL stable Maemo applications are written in
Python, both overall and those using Qt.

The community level support means Python itself is located in community
repositories, and, as a consequence, Python software is not admissible to
Ovi (regardless of being free or not). Highlighting this is part of a broader
agenda - ensuring cooperation between libraries and runtimes used by
Ovi-distributed software and software in community repositories, but the
first step towards that is addressing the single biggest such case - Python.

If there are technical issues which need to be addressed, let's discuss
them in the open and try and solve them; if there are purely political
issues, we strongly urge Nokia to reconsider.


Maemo Community Council



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