Yoshiki Ohshima writes: > And, I see that one of the biggest downside of our software is that > kids cannot participate the software development effort from their > laptops (except...). If we are to look at different platforms, it is > nice to think about easy support of on-laptop-development. I don't > care if it is on Windows or Mac OS; on top of Windows (or Mac OS), you > as an end-user can still do a lot. (Basically the same argument in > "filtered Internet access is better than no Internet access".)
The fix is simple. At bare minimum, the build process should ensure that all the various *-devel RPMs can be installed. Right now they do not all install. I'm unable to get SDL-Pango and librsvg. Just a few days ago we were missing libX11 and even gcc itself. Note that a **very** complete development environment is only 9 MB. That includes the C compiler, all the standard header files, and even the odds and ends like libSDL. It's a crying shame that the laptop includes every impractical sandboxed toy out of academia, but fails to include **the** systems programming language. All of the important things are written in C, including Python! _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
