[Development] Reviews needed before android integration in two weeks

[BogDan]

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> Simply put: Consistency. We do have linux-g++-maemo, linux-g++, linux-arm-
> gnueabi-g++
> 
> They're all flavours of Linux, following the os-compiler/variant pattern. 
> There's no guarantee about what system libraries are in there. In that sense 
> I 
> feel Android is a variant of Linux. In the kernel sense Android is a super-set 
> of the traditional Linux kernel mostly, isn't it? And it's moving closer 
> to 
> mainline step by step.
> 
> Now after a closer inspection I do have to retract my argument with regards to 
> the use of linux* in WebKit. Just disregard it ;)
> 
> Consistency is the only argument that I can think of. It's not a strong one, 
> 
> so I won't go on and on about it. But please consider it :)
> 


linux-g++-maemo, linux-g++, linux-arm-gnueabi-g++ are real linux 
distributions where I can expect to find linux specific libs, tools and apps
(e.g. ssh, telnet, etc.), which is not the case for Android, except the linux
kernel there is nothing "linux" in android ... On android you have less than
15 libs that you can use (+Qt ;-) ), linux-android IMHO it will be confusing
for developers because for most of them linux is not just a kernel but the
whole O.S. and they will start asking why the don't find libXXXXX if this is
a linux.

Cheers,
BogDan.