I have a CRM application that I've written in Ruby that currently runs on Win32 clients as well as Linux ARM clients (Sharp Zaurus PDA's). The application uses Qt for its GUI presentation and XMLRPC calls to push/pull contact data back and forth. It suits my purposes, but I am looking to port it to other platforms, such as Windows Mobile and Palm OS PDA's.
Getting Ruby compiled for the Palm OS is out of the question, and getting Ruby to compile for Windows Mobile has hit many roadblocks. I have tried looking at some Smalltalk implementations to accomplish this, as I am willing to recode my app in another OO language if I can definitely port it over to Windows Mobile and Palm OS. But even the Smalltalk scenario would force me to recode the Smalltalk source itself since one implementation wouldn't port between both platforms. How about Python? Could I code the application once in Python and then port it to both PDA platforms easily? Or is this a pipe dream? I don't know much about Python yet, but would start picking it up if it could fit the bill... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
