EB-Lite Core successfully ported to Syllable, now for the GUI

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Hi All,
	Tonight I decided I'd try a little experiment with the EB-Lite core,
see if it would build and run on Syllable.  I have some good news here.

	For those wondering what Syllable or EB-Lite is, see the footnotes of
this email...

	Tonight, I managed to get EB-Lite to run on Syllable, along with its
command line sidekick, eb-cmd.  So I'm now about 20% on the way to
porting this over to Syllable.  Compiling EB-Lite was interesting, as
configure, didn't recognise the build target (i386-any-atheos), however,
in amongst the files for autoconf, I found a replacement for config.sub
and config.guess, which when I put these in place of the stock ones,
fixed the problem.

	Here
<http://www.longlandclan.hopto.org/pub/eb-lite/eb-lite_syllable.gif> is
a screenshot of the terminal (ATerm) running the core, after a little
tinkering with eb-cmd.

	What's left to do?  Basically, write a GUI for it.  Porting ebqt might
be a possibility, as KHTML has been ported, and both rely on Qt.
Although, if I can get some documentation on the API, and my head around
C++, I might try my hand at writing one from scratch.

	I'm still working on my VisualBASIC client too for Windoze, VB is
proving a little less flexible than I had hoped.  So this means I'll be
using a few workarounds which will be ugly, nothing much I can do about
that.  But once I've got something going, it's possible then to start
moving some stuff around and make it pretty again.

	Anyway, that's a little bit of news I thought I'd share with you all.

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| Stuart Longland           stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org |
| Brisbane Mesh Node: 719             http://stuartl.cjb.net/ |
| I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere |
| Griffith Student No:           Course: Bachelor/IT @ Nathan |
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	For the Everybuddy Developer's:  What is Syllable?

	[Quoting Syllable FAQ]
	"Syllable is a desktop operating system. The goal of Syllable is to
create a reliable and easy-to-use open source Operating System, for the
home and small office user. Syllable is currently under development, but
it is stable and relatively mature, with a number of useful applications
already available. Syllable supports a wide range of common hardware
devices, including video, network and sound cards from manufacturers
such as Intel, AMD, 3Com, nVidia and Creative. If you would like to see
a more comprehensive list of supported hardware, you can search Azaka"

	The Syllable website: <http://syllable.sf.net/>
		(Temporarily: <http://syllable.nutus.com.ar/>)

	For the Syllable Developer's: What is EB-Lite?

	[Quoting EB-Lite Home]
	"EB-lite is the name of the rewrite that is being developed of the
instant messaging client Everybuddy. It carries many major advances on
the current codebase, the biggest of which is that the user interface is
not contained in the same process as the core. This allows any of user
interface, in any language, which does not even have to run on the same
machine. Any number of user interfaces can also connect to the same core."

	The EB-Lite website: <http://www.everybuddy.com/eb-lite>
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