[sword-devel] olpc discussion

[Jason Galyon]

Python is used heavily in the OLPC software, so you do not need a 
separate VM for squeak.  I attended the US Python Conference (PyCon) and 
heard a good discussion of OLPC's architecture.  Python is used 
everywhere on the system except for areas like Xorg where speed and 
existing non-Python code base is available.

Jason

DJ Ortley wrote:
> You can download squeak and play with it on a Windows box without much 
> trouble.  I did it a while ago, but I didn't personally like it.  Then 
> again, I'm not a 12 year old (no comments about my mental age please, 
> thank you very much :P  )
> 
> Though, if squeak promises to be an easy to use programming interface 
> that can be manipulated easily, that might be an interesting sword 
> frontend regardless.  Give the end user the power over what they want 
> their software to do instead of us programmer types.
> 
> 
> I'd like to address the 'connected to the internet' thing a bit.  I've 
> been following off and on this project, and while the ad hoc networking 
> and internet connectivity stuff is big, the machines are designed around 
> being something a student can take home and work with.
> 
> Go to school, download a couple books from the server or your friends, 
> go home and read.  That seems to be an important part of the design 
> paradigm.  If a student has access to the internet all the time with one 
> of these, then there's no need to do any work as there are plenty of 
> servers out there that provide access to the bible on-line (remember, 
> this thing runs Firefox.)
> 
> I wouldn't be too concerned about governments/humanists not wanting 
> religious software running on these things.  It'll either make its way 
> onto a machine or not depending on if the owner wants it on there (I DO 
> NOT suggest we write a bible launching trojan horse/virus for these 
> things...bad idea..bad bad..)
> 
> My personal thoughts are that, something like OpenDocument type files be 
> made available of sword modules that can be downloaded.  Maybe an output 
> filter for the OpenDocument format can be created.  Then there would be 
> the benefit of having files that can be read in a variety of programs.
> 
> Of course, the disadvantage to doing that would be that we wouldn't get 
> to write code...
> 
> -DJ
> 
> 
> On 4/25/07, *Sean Kennedy* < sean.worker at gmail.com 
> <mailto:sean.worker at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     A Squeaky, sneaky Bible application sounds cool.  :-)
> 
>     On 24/04/07, *Darius Clarke* <socinian at gmail.com
>     <mailto:socinian at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         Also, the complete IDE is built into the image. All source code
>         for the IDE is included in just one other file. The image is
>         compact since it's just an image of the running memory. The
>         incremental compiler is built into the VM so you can test it and
>         change it ... while it's running.
> 
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