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Originally Posted by buckyswider
Point of clarity, here- as I too am confused about some of the terminology...
I thought the 'kitchen' was the place where you 'cook' your ROMs- i.e. the BuildOS utility.
I thought the 'food' used in cooking was the 'basekits', i.e. either the No2Chem base or the stock SPRINT base stuff.
And the ROM is the actual output of the kitchen- the .nbh file that you use to load into your phone. It is a compilation of all the 'food' you selected- the basekits and any other stuff you checked off.
Don't want to belabor the discussions, but it may be easier if we all use the same terminologies....It appears as some of us may be a bit confused....
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It used to be that a "Kitchen" was everything you needed to make a single ROM flavor. Buildos was just one of several tools used inside the kitchen to do the baking, and each kitchen had it's own set of tools. Beginning with this generation of BuildOS, a single version of BuildOS is capable of making multiple ROMs for multiple devices, so we now generally refer to BuildOS as The Kitchen - but individual rom kits are also still called "kitchens" for legacy reasons if they are the basis of ROM cooking. [e.g., you would properly refer to DCD's rom kit as a kitchen because it contains it's own buildos, and maybe No2Chem's 5054 rom kit because it is the basis of a kitchen even though it doesn't contain any kitchen software, but not Rob Mayer's rom kits because they only contain the final kitchen output.] Personally, I like referring to BuildOS as the kitchen and everything else as a rom kit, but I don't think that terminology is common or sometimes even accurate yet.
ROMs are the final output of a kitchen.
OEMs are additional programs you can build into a ROM when using a kitchen.
A "Basekit" is the minimum files to produce a ROM, but not additional files that a "kitchen" would generally have and not necessarily in a kitchen friendly format.
"Official" is applied to basekits that have both been updated to include the necessary additional files AND been tested for stability, compatiblity, and beginner friendliness AND are available via the updater tool.
"Stock" refers to a carrier provided ROM/configuration.