Hi Zeth, On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:08 +0000, Zeth Green wrote: > > So the questions remain: What features make you choose one over the other? > > And in particular, regarding Lorn's point below, how do you feel about > > the different APIs? > > I am a lurker in the Openmoko world at the moment. I am not a hardware person > and my ideas for applications involve a functional GSM. So I had a play with > the Qemu image but I am patiently waiting for GTA02/FreeRunner and will get > into things properly in Easter or whenever you guys are happy with the > hardware (no rush). I imagine there are many people in that position. > > Back to the topic, I am interested in OpenMoko for two reasons. Firstly, and > most importantly, as has been previously expressed, the current Android > platform proposals and similar Linux phones such as motorola's own Linux > platform are thoroughly uninteresting to me so far, there are already a > million phones that let you develop within the Java sandbox only. Do we really > need another one? Linux phones that in practice are less open than Symbian > seem a step backwards to me. > > For myself I like scripting languages, Python being my favourite, and I am > hoping the OpenMoko will either come with some kind of scripting language or > let me get one via the package manager. (I'm sure you guys have a plan for > this - as I said I am just a lurker so do not know all the details yet).
I'm a python fan too: ipkg install python-core gives you python 2.5!! This is what I've currently got on my OM: libpython2.5-1.0 - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Programming Language python-codecs - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Codecs, Encodings & i18n Support python-core - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Interpreter and core modules (needed!) python-fcntl - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python's fcntl Interface python-io - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Low-Level I/O python-lang - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Low-Level Language Support python-math - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Math Support python-misc - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Programming Language python-pickle - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Persistence Support python-pycairo - 1.4.0-ml0 - Python Bindings for the Cairo canvas library python-pygobject - 2.12.3-r3 - Python GObject bindings python-pygtk - 2.10.4-ml5 - Python GTK+ 2.10.x Bindings python-re - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Regular Expression APIs python-readline - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Readline Support python-shell - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Shell-Like Functionality python-subprocess - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Subprocess Support python-threading - 2.5.1-ml6 - Python Threading & Synchronization Support -Tim > > Secondly, 400Mhz and 128MB of RAM is a lot of power, it was not that long a > go > that a laptop would have that much power, and on such a machine I want free/ > open source software that I can play with, i.e. this > http://wiki.openmoko.org/images/2/28/Openmokoframework.png > is in some senses a fulfilment of this: > http://www.gnome.org/mobile/gmae-arch-diag.png > which I think is a very good development because there are Python bindings to > all of these things ;) > > Best Wishes, > Zeth > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
