How much work was required in terms of editing Lua, if any? On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Dan Everton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:24:24 -0400, "Joseph Garvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > I realize that interpreted languages are dog slow and probably not > > appropriate for most applications for low speed/memory devices like MP3 > > players, but I'm still curious how feasible or not it would be to get a > > python interpreter (www.python.org) running on Rockbox. > > It's certainly feasible. I had a go at porting LUA to Rockbox and it > wasn't too hard. The largest chunk of work is making the Rockbox API > visible to the scripting language. Though even then it mainly just > requires some thinking and manual work to write up all the API wrappers. > > You can see the LUA patch here http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/9174 > > Now I just wish I had some time to finish it. > > Cheers, > Dan >
