Re: PicoGUI1 and 2

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 03:38:52PM -0600, Micah Dowty wrote:

hi everyone,

> Well, I understand that at this time C++ is prohibitive in a lot of
> embedded devices. 

ok i'm going to put my 2 ounces of salt
<disclaimer>
remember these are only comments
i'm not taking part in the project right now, so since I don't code I
don't think I have any right to tell other people what they should do or
not.
</disclaimer>

just to say, i'm using picogui on my laptop: an 486 with 4m of ram

I don't know how much time it takes on it to compile a two lines hello
world in c++

I tried (g++2.95), and turned off the computer after more than 30hours
of waiting. So basically I won't be able to compile pgui in c++ directly
on my laptop.
 
> The gamble is whether in a year or two it still will
> be.

what is quite sure is that in a year or two i'll still have my laptop.

for me pgui is super usefull on old material, and software for old pcs
is what lacks in unix.

> If you think so, then I'll happily shelve my hopes of doing this in
> C++ to gain a little more portability.

an other important point may be the following:

http://www.suse.de/~bastian/Export/linking.txt

I've been interested with that stuff quite some time ago so I don't know
what has been done yet. I've heard the kde guys have a workaround using
kdeinit, and it seems gcc3.1 may handle the problem. 
But gcc3.1 is at least 1.5 times slower for compiling than 2.95 so I don't 
like the idea of using it on old hardware.

Wagner Frederic

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