Re: [Sugar-devel] Current Sugar implementation on Android

2013-04-17 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: On the negative side, gobject-introspection cross compilation still sounds like a mess https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592311 I worked on that code for a while at litl. Probably the best bet is to not try

Re: [Sugar-devel] Current Sugar implementation on Android

2013-04-16 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Sat, Apr 13 2013, Daniel Narvaez wrote: I was curious about what it would take to port enough of the GNOME libraries to android to be able to run the current Sugar implementation there. I'm not planning to work on it, but I thought it would be useful to post some notes on what I found.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Current Sugar implementation on Android

2013-04-16 Thread C. Scott Ananian
At the time, the android NDK was rather eccentric, which made cross-compilation needlessly difficult. And the GTK stack is very deep, there are a lot of dependencies. My understanding is that the NDK has been improved since then, and is a little more compatible. I wouldn't say speed is the main

Re: [Sugar-devel] Current Sugar implementation on Android

2013-04-16 Thread Walter Bender
Maybe something to discuss with the GNOME crowd coming to the Hackfest this weekend at Twine. -walter On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:58 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.orgwrote: At the time, the android NDK was rather eccentric, which made cross-compilation needlessly difficult. And the GTK

Re: [Sugar-devel] Current Sugar implementation on Android

2013-04-16 Thread Daniel Narvaez
The situation is probably improved since you tried. Collabora has been working on it a lot and parts of their work seems to be landing upstream. For example glib landed very recently https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689223 I agree that it would be worth revisiting. On 16 April 2013

Re: [Sugar-devel] Current Sugar implementation on Android

2013-04-16 Thread Daniel Narvaez
On the negative side, gobject-introspection cross compilation still sounds like a mess https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592311 On 17 April 2013 01:11, Daniel Narvaez dwnarv...@gmail.com wrote: The situation is probably improved since you tried. Collabora has been working on it a lot

[Sugar-devel] Current Sugar implementation on Android

2013-04-13 Thread Daniel Narvaez
Hello, I was curious about what it would take to port enough of the GNOME libraries to android to be able to run the current Sugar implementation there. I'm not planning to work on it, but I thought it would be useful to post some notes on what I found. The way people are building android