I am most definately interested. I tried to get this to run some time ago, and my PocketPC just didnt seem to have the memory to cope with it - so I would love to try it again. And yes - I do agree Windows CE has a retarded memory architecture. While I appretiate the raw processing power I have in my PDA rivals a 5 year old desktop, the OS on these things is really backwards - i hate it, but then bear in mind it was designed for storing phone numbers...
I really appretiate the opportunity to use Python to get some interesting stuff running on it. My fear now is that one python and wx are loaded - it does not leave alot of memory for the apps to run in it. I have been working on a rather complex multi-platform python app, which I would like to see running on my PocketPC. Danny -- http://orionrobots.co.uk - Build Robots On 4/22/05, Brian Retford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's that time again - I've made a lot of progress on reducing the > footprint of my wxPython CE port, I'm working on getting the source > code integrated to the mainline, here's an x-post from the wxPython dev > list - any interest? > > Some people may remember this from many months ago, but I've ported > wxPython to WinCE and we've been using it very successfully for a > couple of months. There have been a lot of challenges that have come > up. I'd like to get all of my changes into some form that would be > useful to the community (right now it is not much more than a large > collection of hacks). What would the best way to do this be? Some of my > concerns: > > WinCE has a retarded memory architecture: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ > dncenet/html/advmemmgmt.asp > > It wastes approx. 32kb of a 32mb virtual address space per dll loaded. > Because of this and obvious memory concerns, I collapsed my wxPython > back into one module, _core.pyd. The changes necessary to do so were > not too hard and I think they could be integrated into the mainline > (-monolithic or something). > > I have a verison of setup.h from wxwidgets that strips out a ton of > stuff (each user might want a different set) so I modified the .i's to > have #if's for most of wxwidgets features - is this something you > (Robin) would be interested in integrating? > > Distutils - I have a totally hacked copy of distutils to support eVC > instead of MSW, I'd need to get this in some better form and then? > redistribute with wxpy? not sure here... > > I also have some binaries I'd be happy to release, but some people > might find them lacking (no jpeg support (only png), missing lots of > advanced wx controls (no wx html, etc)). If there's interest I'll > gladly put it up somewhere. It's similar to what I released many months > ago, but much reduced in footprint. > > Brian Retford > Chief Architect > Coco Communications > > _______________________________________________ > PythonCE mailing list > PythonCE@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce _______________________________________________ PythonCE mailing list PythonCE@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonce
