irssi can connect and segfault on /join. i guessed i should give up.
will stick with the list. thank you very much for useful info. ill start with
the ui design to build things top down. (will only stick with maemo sdk on x86
for now)
----- Original message -----
> Hello Banlu,
>
> It would be really great to have GNUstep and Étoilé running on the n900. A
> couple of us got 770s as part of the open source developer program, but the
> hardware was a bit too limited. The n900 is almost as powerful as the
> machine I
> was using for Étoilé development a year ago, so it should be great.
>
> Getting GNUstep working on the device is the best place to start. I'd
> strongly
> recommend that you use libobjc2. It is now a lot less RAM-heavy than the old
> GNU runtime (in my testing, Gorm goes from needing 95MB to 50MB, which should
> make a big difference on mobile devices). Clang has reasonably good ARM
> support
> (Apple uses it for the iPhone), so compiling shouldn't be a problem.
> Currently,
> there is no support for the ARM EABI exception ABI, although it's being worked
> on, which means that you have to use setjmp() exceptions and LanguageKit can't
> do non-local returns, but that's not a major problem.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by a step-by-step guide to joining Étoilé's SILC
> channel. In the clients I've tried, the guide has been 'give the client the
> address and then tell it to connect'. If you're using the command-line
> client,
> /connect silc.etoile-project.org then /join Etoile should work. I have this
> in
> my silc.conf, which connects me automatically:
>
> servers = (
> { address = "silc.etoile-project.org"; chatnet = Etoile; port = 706;
> autoconnect = "yes"; } );
> chatnets = {
> Etoile = { type = "SILC"; };
> };
> channels = (
> { name = "Etoile"; chatnet = Etoile; autojoin = Yes; }
> );
>
>
> David
>
> On 17 May 2010, at 20:34, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote:
>
> > hello etoile,
> > i just got nokia n900, been using maemo for quite sometimes and since now
> > they
> > are moving to meego which aim to be not just for cellphones. i start to
> > think
> > that it would be nice to have a better dev environment than qt for mobile
> > devices so i was thinking about building something over gnustep but then
> > realize that it would be more interesting with etoile. anyone has such plan
> > in
> > mind or is it being done somewhere?
> >
> > anyway i wonder if there's a step by step guide to join etoile's silc
> > channel
> > especially from maemo, been trying to do that for years and been giving up.
> > i
> > know i didn't try enough but may be you guys will consider an irc channel
> > somewhere so impatient n00b like me could easily drop quick & stupid
> > questions. i do install irssi a couple of times but i still cannot get a
> > clue
> > on how to connect. i guess that's because i believe i shouldn't try that
> > hard
> > just to chat.. just for consideration!
> >
> > thanks
> >
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>
>
> -- Sent from my PDP-11
>
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