Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
Is anyone looking into the difficulty of porting old PalmOS
applications to OpenMoko? There are a few of them that I'd really
hate to lose (the Pilot-DB flat-file database and the Timing multiple
timer are two I use a lot, and haven't seen any equivalent Linux
programs for).
Hmm, if not, that might give me something to look into... timing
couldn't be a direct port since the source isn't open (and besides,
it's got some interface decisions I'd want to change), but pilot-db is
GPL.
Unfortunately PalmOS apps don't 'port' - the API is so bad that the only
solution is to rewrite the application. Unless there are some internal
algorithms that are totally system independent (and with the above named
apps I don't see much if any room for this) there is little if any code
that can be harvested for a port to a new platform.
I worked on the platform from the late 1.x days into the 3.x, and
because I'm a packrat still have several (including my first unit - a
USRobotics PalmPilot 5000) collecting dust.
Been there, done that. Ran away screaming. ;-)
I think I remember the pilot-db app, if you look around there may be
something that fits the same shoes - perhaps something SQLite based?
-P
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