A good place to run Pharo for IoT would be on an ARM-based Synology box. That would be a killer niche.
Phil On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Clement, > > 2014-06-19 12:52 GMT-03:00 Clément Bera <[email protected]>: > > 2014-06-18 15:39 GMT+02:00 Esteban A. Maringolo <[email protected]>: > > >> Can you share what is the intended use of the android vm that you're > >> building? > > > - Deploying application on Android > > - Proving to big customers Pharo can run on ARM processor on the > contrary to > > several other smalltalks > > What kind of applications? Is there an business interest of running on > ARM processors? Is there a sale advantage of having this? I don't want > to sound too inquisitive nor pedantic, those are real questions. > > As stated in previous mails, running on the platform is a technical > challenge per se (I couldn't make it if I wanted), but it's just a > very small part of "deploying to Android". And I'm not talking about > app stores. > > Even though Android (AOSP) is Linux based, the memory/battery > constraints makes that apps or services lifecycle completely > different to regular unix processes. And I don't see how this fits > into the whole android environment. Last time I tried (+1yr) it the VM > was a permanent process, without access to device sensors, etc.[*] > > I have a genuine interest in this topic, because my company depends > both on Pharo and Android (native) software. > > But how I see this, the advantage of Pharo running on Android for > devices other than phones/tablets, more kind of "internet of things" > devices. The advantage is also that the image is an asset of the vm, > so you can update your app without having to reinstall it through the > platform app management. > > Please don't let this stop you guys from doing this VM even for the > fun/sake of doing it. > But as you are making this public, I feel allowed to ask questions and > add comments. You can simply ignore them. :) > > Regards, > > Esteban A. Maringolo > > [*] Several years ago I took a private course of "mobile squeak", and > even compiled a modified squeak VM for WinCE, running MVC based UIs. > Back then Squeak UI was way better than WinCE's, even for "business > apps". Now I think mobile expectations changed. > >
