(Second try.)
On 08.07.2012 06:17, Hobart Spitz wrote:
> Sprint is dismantling the Nextel network and I need to choose a new phone.
>
> Does anyone know which phones can and cannot run OORexx?
You should ask on the ooRexx developer list to see whether any of the ooRexx
developers have been
trying or intending to port ooRexx to a mobile operating system. Actually, as I
am interested in
this myself, I am copying the developoer list and changed the reply-to field to
the developer list
as well.
---
AFAIK there is no current port of ooRexx to any of the mobile platforms.
Here a quick & dirty overview/assessment:
* Apple's iOS: Apple usually does not allow any interpreter to be loaded into
their mobile
platforms. iOS is based on an opensource Unix, but Apple's amendments are
totally proprietary,
used to control their users and developers. So this would not be a platform
for which ooRexx
could be ported to such that Apple phone and pad users become able to
exploit it at all. [Cf.
Apple barrying Java to be deployed on phones and pads, which I regard to be
unbelievable, making
sure that Apple remains totally closed.]
It seems that Apple has successfully created a golden cage into which tons
of people flock
voluntarily, not reailizing that they become enprisoned and enslaved.
* Mobile Windows: this has gone through many editions in the past and has not
been a real success
at all, despite a former Microsoft manager taking over Nokia and betting
Nokia's future on
Windows 7.5/8. In addition, Microsoft seems to copy Apple in almost all
aspects in the mobile
area, ultimately copying the golden cage, the enprisonment and enslaving
tactics.
* Google's Android: this is based on Linux (there are ports of ooRexx to
Linux) on top of which
Java applications get executed (compiling Java to Dalvik bytecodes and
executing that). Google
keeps the infrastructure opensource and also allows alternative application
stores to download
applications. Android has surpassed the leader Apple IOS in the smartphone
segment and has been
attacking successfully the pad market segment.
Of these three systems, Android is the one for which a port of ooRexx would
make sense to. The port
could be downloaded on these devices and used, without having to ask a
slave-master for permission.
In the case that any developer is going to port ooRexx to Android, I would
offer to start a port of
BSF4ooRexx to Android in the winter semester, which should allow to interface
ooRexx with the
Android Java-based stacks, allowing interaction with that infrastructure from
ooRexx.
So my question would be: are there any ooRexx developers contemplating porting
ooRexx to Android
sometimes this year?
---rony
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