Re: Maemo port?

FGM wrote:
> It seems the first problem would be to build PHP on it. From the specs, 
> it appears it currently has GTK+, but not PHP.

Not really.  It's an ARM platform, and there are already compile targets 
for it (my NAS has an ARM processor and has thttpd+php running on it).

The biggest "problem" (IMHO) would be hildonizing the interface, but 
that might be a worthy goal in and of itself.
(an overview of working with the Hildon framework is here:
<http://maemo.org/development/documentation/tutorials/maemo_4-0_tutorial/#gui>) 


> In addition, given the limited resources available on a phone, it seems 
> suboptimal to develop for it in a scripting language.

Maemo isn't only used on phones, but on Nokia Internet Tablets (the 
prime target, IMHO), which are really just linux-based handheld computers.

There are currently 281 user-created applications for OS2008 (n800 and 
n810), including python and ruby, several editors, and a port of the 
game "Battle for Wesnoth" (wesnoth.org).  I would like to write some 
things for it, but only really know php.  Otherwise, I'd probably try to 
take this one on myself.  :)