Ben Combee wrote: > > Hmm, so that means the YAHM SDK stuff won't work? That's bad for some > > folks... including myself :P > > I think there's plenty of time to wait-and-see here. I also think a > lot of applications enabled by YAHM SDK work can probably be > implemented in a much cleaner way as a native Linux application.
I think it would be a Really Good Thing if Access/Palmsource would publish a white paper at the earliest possible time, specifying what the Access Palm Linux system actually is. This would help keep the Palm developers on the bandwagon, and give us something to work with. Right now, about all we know that it has a 2.6 kernel, GTK+, SQLite an GStreamer, and the press release doesn't say much more. I'd like to be assured that all Linux system calls will be supported, or be told exactly which won't. I'd like a description of the architecture of ALP, and be given a list of libraries that sure to be included with the system. What filesystems will be supported, and what does the file system heirarchy look like? What services will ALP be running? Does ALP use a System V or BSD startup sequence, or something different? How will developing native code on ALP be different than developing a GTK+ program on a PC Linux distribuition? Etc. Jay Ts -- Author of Using Samba, 2nd edition Published by O'Reilly Media http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/ -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
