From: Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:51:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d375e920903260551s3ebbf94dp3a3d6f4d745f6b4e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32d987d50903260530n50a3a389i43a605a242733506@mail.gmail.com>
Why not Inferno for iPhone or Symbian or Android? If one is going to
research multitouch/small-scree GUIs, one will want to write
applications, and being able to write apps in Limbo for either
platform would be a big win, plus you get all the drawterm
functionality for free, and could be the basis of an Octopus port.
Porting drawterm is a dead end with very little potential of either
learning anything interesting or being useful in the future.
uriel
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Federico G. Benavento
<benavento@gmail.com> wrote:
>> My personal belief is that this is a really bad, if not dangerous criteria
>> for projects. The goal for gsoc should not be to assign work for stuff 'we
>> need' -- if we need something we should be doing it ourselves. The goal
>> should be to create interesting projects that attract new developers and
>> ideas to the system -- and ones tha
>>
>
> this is a bit misleading, if someone wants to explore small screens,
> multi-touch and whatelse, why not getting a linux phone and starting
> there?
>
> I mean, drawterm for the iphone! why not for symbian?
>
>
> --
> Federico G. Benavento
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-26 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-25 20:57 André Günther
2009-03-26 0:14 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-26 0:24 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 0:39 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-26 0:54 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 1:02 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 1:07 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 1:11 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 1:21 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 1:29 ` Nathaniel W Filardo
2009-03-26 2:03 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-03-26 2:07 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 2:42 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-03-26 2:53 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-03-26 3:09 ` Noah Evans
2009-03-26 3:14 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 3:24 ` Tom Lieber
2009-03-26 3:32 ` Paul Lalonde
2009-03-26 3:31 ` Jeff Sickel
2009-03-26 2:23 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 2:25 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 3:20 ` Bakul Shah
2009-03-26 3:32 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-26 11:59 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 12:30 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-26 12:51 ` Uriel [this message]
2009-03-26 13:28 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 13:34 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 14:43 ` Brian L. Stuart
2009-03-26 16:18 ` Akshat Kumar
2009-03-26 16:24 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 13:16 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 13:27 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 16:17 ` Bakul Shah
2009-03-26 1:31 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 2:01 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-26 4:36 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-26 2:20 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 8:33 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2009-03-26 18:04 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-26 18:22 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 18:29 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 18:39 ` Tom Lieber
2009-03-26 18:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 19:00 ` Uriel
2009-03-26 19:14 ` lucio
2009-03-26 19:27 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 19:36 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-26 19:56 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-29 1:14 ` Anant Narayanan
2009-03-30 2:51 ` erik quanstrom
2009-03-30 3:02 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-30 3:40 ` ron minnich
2009-03-30 3:46 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-30 14:08 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-03-31 4:26 ` Uriel
2009-03-31 4:36 ` Jack Johnson
2009-03-31 4:57 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-03-31 6:00 ` Uriel
2009-03-31 6:22 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2009-03-31 6:24 ` André Günther
2009-03-31 6:42 ` Federico G. Benavento
2009-03-31 20:51 ` David Leimbach
2009-03-31 7:33 ` yy
2009-03-31 7:36 ` Uriel
2009-03-31 9:14 ` Noah Evans
2009-03-31 12:01 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-31 14:36 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-31 14:57 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-31 15:02 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-31 15:09 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2009-03-31 11:52 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-26 18:39 ` J.R. Mauro
2009-03-26 19:35 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 19:57 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-26 19:54 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 21:22 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-03-26 21:26 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2009-03-28 1:21 ` Uriel
2009-03-28 2:02 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2009-03-26 7:32 ` André Günther
2009-03-26 10:42 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2009-03-26 11:59 ` hiro
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