C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Dec 5, 2007 10:15 PM, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Finally we have the problem of NO systems programming language >> being supplied. It's less than 9 MB for the whole C development >> environment, including a decent collection of *-devel packages. >> You even get a second language thrown in for free, x86 assembly. >> Pretty much everything that matters is written in C, including >> the Python interpreter. > > I'd be very interested in hearing details of your 'whole C development > environment'. By my casual inspection, 'rpm -qi gcc' says that gcc > alone is over 10MB, and that *doesn't* include any of the *-devel > packages needed to make it actually useful. > > I believe there has been some work done on identifying a "lightweight" > C development infrastructure; your assistance there would be helpful. > --scott >
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the XO a platform for learning, not software development? And isn't it supposed to be lightweight and child-friendly? I would dearly love to have Ruby in there, and R, and SBCL, and Guile, and Maxima, and Perl, because I don't know *any* Python. But the philosophy of the machine is that languages other than Python and Squeak/Smalltalk are discouraged. I don't mind learning Python to be able to program the machine. Now, if you truly want a lightweight development environment, install "gforth". I believe it's under 2 MB, and it's a full ANS Forth, not the basic low-level Forth that's in the boot firmware. It has, like most Forths, an assembler and dis-assembler. That said, when I get my G1G1, I'm certainly planning to load additional software on a Secure Digital card, but that will probably be cross-compiled on another system, rather than native-compiled on the XO, simply because I've got much bigger workstations to use for compile engines. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel