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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 05:03:18
Message-Id: 200504280104.35002.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Introduction? by Jeff Walter
1 On Thursday 28 April 2005 12:57 am, Jeff Walter wrote:
2 > I'm building a bit more of interface which handles button presses and such
3 > (forgot your root password?). The framework is built using Perl, but the
4 > actual calls to set LCD text and query button status are handled via some
5 > hacked up code I found on Sun's Cobalt dev FTP. I've created an ebuild for
6 > it; whether or not the ebuild was done well is not important at this point,
7 > just need something that works.
8
9 care to post this ebuild somewhere ? we've talked about how we wish we could
10 do something fun with the lcd in #gentoo-mips before, so this might be a nice
11 start :)
12
13 > If anything wants lower level access, well, have fun :-) The point here is
14 > to make something that is easily extensible. I don't want to write
15 > something that requires someone to know C, or heaven forbid Python, to
16 > extend. You know what I mean?
17
18 well, you could always cop out and write the core in C but provide extensions
19 for perl/python/ruby/etc... in swig *ugh* ! :)
20 -mike
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