From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-04-05T04:52:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby on the Sharp Zaurus?

Stefan Matthias Aust wrote:
> I wonder whether Ruby would be a good choice to develop application for a
> device like the new Sharp Zaurus 5500 PDA.  It's Linux based, so it
> shouldn't be difficult to compile Ruby for that system.  How much memory
> does Ruby need to run? 

Ruby went on happily with less than 8 Mb on the Agenda VR3 PDA. However,
the big question isn't how much memory Ruby needs, but how much your
application is going to gobble up. 64 Mb seems gigantic, but truth be
told, Ruby is a bit memory hungry if you're not careful. (Or "generous"
if I remember a post from Matz correctly :-)


> To create GUI application, would would probably need
> to deal with Qt/embedded/qtopia.  Does Ruby provide bindings for this? 

There is bindings for standard Qt (
http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa-list.rhtml?name=Ruby%2FQt2 ) but as far
as I know there are no efforts directed squarely at embedded Qt.


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