From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <32d987d50903260530n50a3a389i43a605a242733506@mail.gmail.com> References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <14ec7b180903251811md72d664k576f7b12b86dd633@mail.gmail.com> <20090326012938.GE22497@masters6.cs.jhu.edu> <20090326032009.7CFB05B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> <32d987d50903252032y444ebddcq670e12d1a94e4f2f@mail.gmail.com> <32d987d50903260530n50a3a389i43a605a242733506@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:51:31 +0100 Message-ID: <5d375e920903260551s3ebbf94dp3a3d6f4d745f6b4e@mail.gmail.com> From: Uriel To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: c7ac2c0a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 wrote: >> My personal belief is that this is a really bad, if not dangerous criter= ia >> for projects. =C2=A0The goal for gsoc should not be to assign work for s= tuff 'we >> need' -- if we need something we should be doing it ourselves. =C2=A0The= 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 > >