Re: [iPAQ] GPE - GNU PDA Environment Why not an API ?

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 06:24, Alexander Guy wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:18:05AM +0100, Nils Faerber wrote:
> >
> > > The most GPE will do, (again, AFAIK) is give you a 'default' set of
> > > software to get stuff done; matchbox and gpe-appmgr are the only
> > > programs ATM AFAIK.
> >
> > We already have some more which can be integrated nicely, for example
> > dillo as web browser and some games. What is still missing (!!!) are those
> > PIMs.
> > Any volunteers?
> > They don't need to be beautiful right from the start.
> > But they should be usable.
> > At the moment most of us agreed to start using C as language, GTK+ 1.2 as
> > toolkit and SQLite as RDBMS.
>
> I mentioned this before, but didn't get a response.. Salamander is already
> in CVS, it's a Python framework and a set of applications designed to make
> handhelds useful. It's more of a research project for me than anything
> (and I've been neglecting it lately), but it does a lot of things I think
> people are thinking about:
It is my understanding that the 'core' apps will be written in C for
speed. There is nothing to stop python apps from being 'stopgaps'.
(Though I don't mean that in a bad way; the app itself may continue to
be improved like mingle/etc., but just not as a 'core' part of GPE).
That's my opinion, BTW, not a fact. (I'm just a lowly developer :-)

It may even be enough to have speed-critical parts of GPE to be in C,
and the rest in python - eg. SQL interface to python, pygtk UI. If the
searching etc. is done by the SQL bit, it will still be fast. (Try
searching with 80+ cards in mingle, slow++. I wrote a C version a while
back that used XML to store the cards; it was incredibly fast to start &
search, but I never added the ability to edit the data)

> > PS: Please move those discussions to the GPE mailinglist, OK?
Ok.

> I guess I should subscribe..
You're still on the CC ATM.
But it would be good :)

mibus

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