Re: only c ? can i use pygtk ?

Your are the PR man ;-) !

Hehe.

Erez: it'd be really great if you could port it, GPE really needs a mail
client, and pymap is very nice indeed :-)

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nils Faerber" <nils_at_kernelconcepts.de>
To: <gpe_at_handhelds.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Gpe] only c ? can i use pygtk ?

> On 20 Jul 2002 13:00:29 +0100
> Philip Blundell <pb_at_nexus.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 08:49, erez Doron wrote:
> > > as i can see (correct me if I'm wrong ) there is no gpe-mail
> > > I wanted to make pymap the gpe-mail app (it supports pop3/imapv4/smtp
+
> > > ssl),
> > > screenshots at http://www.savan.com/erez/pymap.html
> > > but it is pygtk and not c-gtk
> > > do i need to port it ?
> > Yes, GPE is implemented entirely in C at the moment and I'd like it to
> > stay that way. Sorry.
>
> Let me add some word of explanation to this.
> GPE is intended to become (or be ;) an as efficient and as fast as
possible environment for Linux (or even in general Un*x) PDAs. Especially
the most most basic applications that are freequently used on a PDA should
be that way so that the user gets best responsiveness out of his/her PDA.
> We see that Python-GTK is a very good way to prototype an application or
to develop "on the run" that is do on-device development. But we think that
for real world complex applications they should be developed with a natively
compilable language like C.
> On top of the "compilable question we decided in the very beginning that
at least the basic applications and libraries which is contained in the
CVS/base directory should be C and C only. This was mainly a design decision
to make the base system consistant.
>
> > > btw: i would like to make pymap use the gpe-adressbook database.
> > > is there a standard way to query it ? to add a vcard ?
> > I think this is the sort of thing that libOPDS is supposed to handle.
>
> And it would IMHO require either a libOPDS or SQLite Pythin binding.
>
> > p.
> CU
> nils faerber
>
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