On Aug 17, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Cosimo Streppone wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:15:47 +0200, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > >> On Aug 16, 2011, at 3:38 AM, Erik Colson wrote: >> >>> On 16 Aug 2011, at 09:40, Johan Vromans wrote: >>> >>>> How about iPad? Is it possible to run wxPerl on iPad? >>>> >>>> With basic functionailty? E.g., window management, point & click. >>>> No fancy stuff like multitouch? >>> >>> AFAIK wxwidgets doesn't compile on ios .. >>> so probably not >> >> wxiOS is a GSoC project this year, and the student just reported to the >> wx-dev mailing list that he'd made some big improvements. >> >> Anyway, that's kind of irrelevant for Johan's question, because interpreted >> languages aren't allowed on iOS, except for Javascript in WebApps. All >> installable apps must be written in C, C++, or Objective-C. > > This is something that I've always wanted to know, but > never looked it up properly. > > So IIUC it's not possible for you, buyer and owner > of the hardware to install on it software that you, > programmer, built for it? > > Is that correct? >
Correct. JailBreaking is the only way to really *own* your device and open up a wealth of possibilities (including perl). JailBreaking is legal, and reversible, but Apple obviously doesn't like it. And although it's quite easy to do most of the time, there is a risk that you do it wrong and "brick" your device. I like my iPad, but I love my JailBroken iPad ;-) Cheers, Huub
