From: Alex Ye <xyzyx@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T14:33:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows Mobile 5.0 support?

Brian Palmer wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> A few things off the top of my head:
> 
> * No console, thus no STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR (but then, neither does
> rubyw on win32)
> * No concept of current working directory, I think this would need to
> be emulated for compatability
> * Need a window manager to do anything useful like user interaction,
> has Fox or any other Ruby WM been ported to WM5?
> * Differences in API between Windows NT and Windows Mobile -- lots of
> little things in the ruby source would I'm sure change
> * File paths, for instance, are quite different.
> 
> I'm sure there's other things as well. I'm not saying it's an
> insurmountable problem, but it'd be a lot of work and I guess there
> just hasn't been the interest yet.
> 
> Correct me if I'm wrong on any of this, I haven't been active in the
> Pocket PC world for a year or two.
> 
> -- Brian Palmer

But how about http://sourceforge.net/projects/pythonce ?
Work's good on my Acer n300 with WM 5.

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