Hmm. This shoudln't be too hard- PicoGUI's operating system requirements at runtime are pretty small, and don't include TCP/IP when you're using pgserver as a library rather than a separate process.
The build system, though, I'd always felt was too simple rather than too complex. It doesn't keep track of dependencies, so it's easy to enable a video driver but not realize it also needs input driver X, VBL Y, and a few other assorted doodads. Fundamentally all the build system has to do is generate a config.h and figure out what files need to be compiled. I think the current system, or something like it, needs to stay in place for picogui to be easy to configure on most systems. Manually editable config files would be doable too- maybe something like what busybox uses. There are also certain cases when the build system has to do more than what's mentioned above. When you use compiled-in .BDF fonts, there's a perl script that converts the .BDF fonts to source code which then gets compiled in. Perl is cross-platform enough, but there would need to be a good way to invoke that. A more portable build system would be great, but it really needs to also be good enough people would want to use it on linux in place of the current build system. Having multiple build systems would surely just lead to headaches in testing later. --Micah On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:02:03AM +0100, Peter Graf wrote: > Micah wrote: > > >Well, it's not the bugs that disappoint me, it's the lack of forethought > >I had when putting together PicoGUI's architecture. The biggest thing that > >bothers me still is how it does clipping of 2D primitives. PicoGUI was a > >great > >learning experience for me, but I'm a little surprised people still use it. > > > >Still, if other developers are finding things PicoGUI does for their > >project > >that TinyX or Qt/E can't, that's a good thing :) > > > > > PicoGUI can do things that TinyX or Qt/E can't. I'm sure it would be > used in a lot of projects, and have a good number of developers, if it > targets the embedded market without the Unixish requirements on both the > build tools and the target side. > > Embedded targets have lots of diverging tools and operating systems, or > even lack any OS and only use custom specific software. But very often > the requirement for _networking_ or _GUI_ comes up sooner or later. > > For networking there is a very nice solution that supports the whole > range of the embedded world: lwIP. All it requires is a simple C > Compiler, Make, manually editable configuration files, and specified > architecture specific functions. For a nice GUI there is no such > software. This is the area where PicoGUI could become famous! > > I'm sure I sound naive to you, and I know I'm oversimplifying, but my > plea is: Remove the Unixish build tool and target requirements, and > PicoGUI will become an active project! Target the whole range of > embedded! I'm not talking theory. I needed a network stack and a GUI. > I've been able to port lwIP, but I'm not able to port PicoGUI. I'm sure > a similar decision process will happen throughout the (non-Unixish) > embedded range. > > All the best > Peter > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel -- Only you can prevent creeping featurism! ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
