The end goal after FSO is complete is to make UI creation on the phone as simple as web page Creation.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bergstrom Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:35 AM To: community Subject: Web server on the phone? Basically all of my experience writing UIs is on the web. I'd like to run a webserver on the phone, so I can write dirt-simple UIs that way, rather than getting tied up in GTK/e/Qt. I see that there's a busybox server: http://buildhost.openmoko.org/daily-feed/armv4t/busybox-httpd_1.11.0-r2_armv 4t.ipk One might also consider thttpd: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ Or shttpd: http://shttpd.sourceforge.net/ I suspect any of them would be OK for serving static files. However, I wonder if CGI would be feasible. I'm guessing that spawning a shell script wouldn't be too hard, but I suspect that spinning up a whole python process might be a bit much for the little arm CPU. Anyone have any thoughts on that? Since I'm quite familiar with Django (http://www.djangoproject.com), I thought I might just run the Django development server, which has a toy-ish httpd server built in. That way I'd already have python running, so I'd avoid all the fork/exec/load-libraries overhead. Not really sure where I'm going with this, just throwing out ideas to see if anyone says yea or nay. -- Dirk _______________________________________________ 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
