Alastair responds to Erik:
| > BTW when will you distribute a WinCE version?
|
| If you'll buy me a WinCE machine, I'll be happy to do the port.
And I'll say the same ... I'd be happy to work on a Hugs CE port
if somebody could provide me with a CE machine. (And if we're
talking feature sets, one with a VGA out would be nice :-)
But ...
| Personally, I'm more interested in porting it to my Palm Pilot -
| an awesome little machine (that I'm told can run CAML lite).
Like Alastair, I'm also a PalmPilot fan, and I've been thinking about
the possibility of running Hugs on mine ever since I got it last year.
The Pilot limits the size of any single data structure to 64K, but that
needn't be a problem: In the beginning, Gofer, on which Hugs is based,
was designed to work with the segmented architecture of the 8088, which
`enjoyed' the same restriction. (Gofer's heap was actually split into
two separate arrays, each of which could fit in a different segment.
One array was used to hold the fst value of each pair, the other to
hold the snd values.) The rumours about a port of Caml Light for the
Pilot appear to be true (http://pauillac.inria.fr/~rouaix/pilot/cl.html),
which also makes it sound more feasible.
So I'm curious ... how many folks out there are interested in using
Hugs on the move, and what platform(s) do you use? Respond to me
directly rather than to the list, and I'll post a summary if there's
enough interest (although I'm not promising to do anything more than
that just yet!).
All the best,
Mark
