Talk:Development issues
Any plans to use any of the "low memory footprint" C libraries (uClibC, etc.)? --pdinoto
- Don't think so: I18N and compatibility says otherwise. I think there are better places to go hunting. - jg
- Odd. Zaurus uses some of the "low memory footprint" libraries and it supports multiple scripts including Japanese, English and Cyrillic. It is based on the QT library which has very good I18N and Unicode support. Recently, Trolltech has been selling a Qtopia Mobile Phone Edition that is being used on mobile phones in countries such as China.
- If there is, in fact, an I18N issue with a "low memory footprint" library, then it should be investigated with a view to fixing it. Every byte we can trim the base system is one more byte for educational content.
will java (SE,ME) be supported? i know java is supposed to be huge memory hog, but carefully written app can consume as little as 16 MB together with java virtual machine - wolf
Is there any discussion of using a microkernel, such as L4, GNU/Hurd, or the Linux on L4? These aren't complete, but, a high profile project such as this could speed the development of any one of these. A small micro-kernel that is highly tuned to the individual CPU being used seems like it would increase performance and lower battery usage and could be very good for a project like this.
- Are you thinking about minix3???
I understand that Python is the primary development language. However, will C/C++ be available as well? I have a character-based app. that could be ported to OLPC.