lonnie wrote:tommy wrote:We know for sure that SwirlyMMS does not work out-of-the-box on 2.0. We must first do a porting effort to get it to work and this is of course something that we will do. Today we cannot say when this will be finished, so yes, you will have to wait and wait and wait.But hopefully not too long...
And yes, Cydia will definitely be used for the distribution. Installer too if it gets ported over... As far as I know there are not too many apps, besides numerous command-line utilities from Erica and the command-line tools that comes bundled with Cydia, available in Cydia yet. So if you are interested in the good-old 3rd party apps you should wait a little longer before you upgrade.
/Tommy
From what I've been reading lately there's a few approaches to porting.. one would be to port over fully to the 2.0 toolchain which requires renaming a bunch of functions essentially, as well as dealing with the way apple changed the keyboard behaviors.. then there is the compatability chain which allows you to compile your code pretty much as it is .. but that may not work in future 2.0 releases..
Using the compatability libraries (found in Cydia) .. you could compile a 2.0 release quickly while working on a full 2.0 port later on ..
I realize we're still looking at a couple of weeks before we'll see it, but using the compatability libraries it might lessen the initial effort.
We are of course following the development of the new toolchain and the various options there are to build and port apps for 2.0 very, very closely! Once our vacations are over (yes, we have actually taken a few days off, sort of..., with our families after a very busy 2008), we will focus on a release for 2.0.
/Tommy
