Re: Python box (home-use smart router)
On Tue, 27 May 2014 08:33:42 +0100, animalize81 animaliz...@gmail.com wrote: Home-use smart router is more and more popular. If Python Software Foundation embeds Python into such router, and develops a framework that has the following features: 1, allow power-down at any time 2, dynamic domain name 3, local storage support (SD cards or Hard Disk) 4, telnet server etc. Then we can create micro private server on it. Still can't see the full prospect, but it may be a great platform for people's imagination. I think Python is very suitable for such role. Have you met the Raspberry Pi? Seriously, since many such smart routers are Linux boxes, there's a good chance there is already a Python interpreter installed and your list of other demands is already met. It's certainly the case in the boxes I work on, and we do use Python for bits of system scripting. We *don't* use Python for application writing because speed and space constraints are usually quite tight, which generally means coding in C for preference (despite my boss's attempts to force me to use C++). -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Python box (home-use smart router)
Home-use smart router is more and more popular. If Python Software Foundation embeds Python into such router, and develops a framework that has the following features: 1, allow power-down at any time 2, dynamic domain name 3, local storage support (SD cards or Hard Disk) 4, telnet server etc. Then we can create micro private server on it. Still can't see the full prospect, but it may be a great platform for people's imagination. I think Python is very suitable for such role. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python box (home-use smart router)
On 2014-05-27 15:33, animalize81 wrote: Home-use smart router is more and more popular. If Python Software Foundation embeds Python into such router, and develops a framework that has the following features: 1, allow power-down at any time 2, dynamic domain name 3, local storage support (SD cards or Hard Disk) 4, telnet server etc. Then we can create micro private server on it. It certainly can. I've got a Buffalo router here that runs a stripped-down version of Linux and has Python installed on it. No need for the PSF to get involved because people are already creating these without them. I know that a lot of folks use an old router and put OpenWRT, DD-WRT, or Tomato firmware on them. This would give you a Linux platform on which you can install Python, usually telnet (or more likely, SSH) support, and can be integrated with a number of dynamic-DNS services. You could even grab a Raspberry Pi (model B with ethernet), add a USB ethernet adaptor, and you'd have a pretty nice machine with 512MB of RAM (the router platforms don't usually have more than ~64MB of RAM), two ethernet ports for routing, and would support SD or USB drives. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
