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On Thursday 28 April 2005 12:57 am, Jeff Walter wrote: |
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> I'm building a bit more of interface which handles button presses and such |
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> (forgot your root password?). The framework is built using Perl, but the |
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> actual calls to set LCD text and query button status are handled via some |
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> hacked up code I found on Sun's Cobalt dev FTP. I've created an ebuild for |
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> it; whether or not the ebuild was done well is not important at this point, |
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> just need something that works. |
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care to post this ebuild somewhere ? we've talked about how we wish we could |
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do something fun with the lcd in #gentoo-mips before, so this might be a nice |
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start :) |
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> If anything wants lower level access, well, have fun :-) The point here is |
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> to make something that is easily extensible. I don't want to write |
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> something that requires someone to know C, or heaven forbid Python, to |
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> extend. You know what I mean? |
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well, you could always cop out and write the core in C but provide extensions |
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for perl/python/ruby/etc... in swig *ugh* ! :) |
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-mike |
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