[request] Please help make Carbide.C++ and Symbian SDKs for Linux

[ykasidit]

Dear Nokia,

After watching the Nokia Developer Summit videos showing the great success they have in selling so many devices, something like another forum member posted "Nokia manufactures ~500 million devices a year, and that there are ~1 billion Nokia phone users"... hearing how they want to open-source things at symbian, introducing qt, etc...

I'm sure many of us developers who prefer Linux hope for a build system for Symbian C++ and QT-S60, on linux.

Many believe that sharing of knowledge is good and monopoly/hiding of knowledge is not, therefore many of these people are computing with pride on an OS that shares its knowledge/source, stable and safe without the virus/worm/spyware/trojan business.

They learn, use/benefit from and share knowledge back. Many make commercial software and/or support/services (like Trolltech - QT), but the knowledge is still shared/improved so the whole ecosystem gets better and better.

Please help make Carbide.C++ and Symbian SDKs for Linux so more open-source developers would enter the Nokia/Symbian ecosystem - learning/using/sharing knowledge.

We can see that a huge amount of people are actively learning, benefiting, sharing back the knowledge in the GNU/Linux-based projects and communities. These projects are very much "alive".

There are also so many KDE QT application developers out there who could try the QT-S60, but would, ofcourse, prefer learning/using/sharing knowledge on KDE GNU/Linux.

For Nokia/Symbian development the IDE is Carbide.C++ with Symbian SDKs - they are already mainly USING open-source components in the build-system, most components are available on Windows and Linux:

- gcc
- perl
- java
- eclipse ide + CDT

However, the missing thing in the contribution cycle is Nokia's Carbide.C++ and the Symbian SDKs which is not yet cross-platform as all the above mentioned tools.

If Nokia does make Carbide.C++ and Symbian SDKs for Linux then it'll be a contribution back to the open-source community that nokia/symbian USED so much. Then, hopefully, the contribution cycle would run a more full round - REAL "OPEN-SOURCE" guys would love to share their knowledge back to the ecosystem more and hopefully make a more "living" open-knowledge sharing ecosystem.

It is already possible to develop Symbian C++ apps on Linux manually (http://www.martin.st/symbian - I tried and used with eclipse CDT and it was working - making .sisx files that work on phone - but far more difficult, time-consuming, error-prone than Carbide.C++, still takes too much effort compared to Carbide.C++ that would help so much.

Just a set that can make native symbian release builds would be enough initially. Porting the SDK, build system would probably be the main focus, the emulator is not the main thing.

[hydroo]

I'd like to develop under linux, too. I surely won't switch for a hobby's sake.