I am welcome to any information about publishing Harmattan packages :
- with external dependencies (not included in the Harmattan SDK);
- libraries without icon (i.e., without "user/" section).

For example :
- MatPlotLib has dependency on MatPlotLib-Data;
- I will use SymPy and MatPlotLib as dependencies for Integral, Derivative, Limit and graph plotting softwares.

I have search and it seems "Apps.ForMeeGo.org" does not yet accept my cases :
http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_Apps/Submit
"At this time it is only possible to submit a package which has no external dependencies, other than what is provided in the SDK. If you need other libraries for instance, then you should link them in statically. We're looking into adding shared dependencies, but that still needs discussion."

And Nokia Store also has similar limitation :
Submit-a-Python-Pyside-based-application-to-OVI-store
"Applications must NOT require additional downloads. If the MeeGo application contains a "Dependency Notice", please fail the application for linking to external repositories."

Any suggestion ???

I think this is a very valid concern.
I can kind of understand this policy from the Nokia Store - but I think at least Apps for Meego should really accept libraries, at least if it wants to continue the good tradition of Maemo Extras.

I can add another use-case:
Say I want to use text to speech in my application - there is no TTS interface in Harmattan (I know of). It should not be that hard to port Fremantle Espeak packages to Harmattan, but where to put them so that all apps can share a single package instance and get the package installed automatically ?

Of course, provided your application is calling Espeak from the command line, It would be possible to submit a dummy espeak "application" with an icon that plays "You have Espeak installed" when clicked. Then you'll call your users to install this "app".

But why ? We have a perfectly working automated package management system and this just feels like a regression.

Hi,

X-Fade answered in another topic :

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...9&postcount=44