From: gregarican <greg.kujawa@...>
Date: 2007-08-07T21:20:00+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby on the zaurus

On Aug 7, 7:29 am, "Sy Ali" <sy1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/7/07, Tom Link <sanobast-rubyfo...@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> > > Poky first, then I'll try pdaXrom.
>
> > Maybe you could post your experiences on oesf with that. They just made
> > a new release recently, I think. I read though that it isn't actually
> > targeted at end-users. The future is supposed to be Angstrom, or so they
> > say.
>
> I won't have time to test Poky until the weekend, but I'll give it a
> shot.  Until then I'll fiddle with vi some more and then take another
> stab at using emacs with ruby support.
>
> Actually, I have some heavy lifting to do to fix my ruby scripts so
> that they run faster on my Zaurus.  They're painfully slow right now.
> =(
>
> Poky's latest release looks particularly good.  Angstrom was pre-alpha
> when I last saw it.  Now it's just alpha but there is a lot of
> activity.  I still place a lot of hope in it.  I might even buy a
> C3100 just for more full support and development under Angstrom.

Out of curiosity how is it doing all of the script creation and
editing on the Zaurus? Personally most of the development I did on the
Zaurus a few years ago was done using my PC and I just copied the
files over to the Zaurus for deployment. I tried using text editors
for Ruby, Python's own IDE for Zaurus, and even a Squeak image. But it
just seemed to tedious. I guess there's a certain coolness factor
involved, plus if you're on the road and don't have a PC handy you can
just work right on the handheld.

Too bad Sharp bailed out on the Zaurus line in the U.S. I know the C
series is doable through importers and the line is a lot more
functional and powerful than the SL series. But it seemed as if things
got stagnant in terms of active application development. So then that
lost steam my interest unfortunately did too.

The suggestion about the zgcc package and cramfs is a good one. It
worked well from what I recall. But it just was so tedious and slow
compiling things directly on the Z that I didn't have the patience.