From: "Stefan Fröberg" <stefan.froberg@petroprogram.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Help needed with cross-compiling libotr
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:01:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <512F7F72.8050903@petroprogram.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130228164816.4b62ebad@skate>
28.2.2013 17:48, Thomas Petazzoni kirjoitti:
> Dear Jeremy Rosen,
>
> Could you please avoid top-posting, and use a decent mailer than wraps
> line properly? Thanks!
>
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:43:01 +0100 (CET), Jeremy Rosen wrote:
>
>> I am torn on that one... the frontier between embedded and not
>> embedded never was very clear, and there are lots of single-purpose
>> computers that have a screen and a keyboard to run a single graphical
>> app.
>>
>> I don't know the exact project here, but having a small screen
>> displaying messages and implementing it with pidgin... that wouldn't
>> have been my technical choice but why not...
>>
>> my point is that there are lots of "obviously desktop" apps that are
>> sometime used in the embedded world without pulling in the whole
>> infrastructure, so in a way it makes sense to have them in buildroot.
> Agreed. But what Stefan is doing is really a general-purpose
> distribution, he already told about his global project on the list in
> the past. So not only Pidgin is going to be packaged, but maybe also
> Abiword, Firefox, and why not LibreOffice?
Eh, LibreOffice is little bit too much even for me :-)
And Abiwrod... well let's say im just happy with leafpad.
But why not Firefox ? After all there are mobile version of it ?
Regards
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-28 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-28 15:04 [Buildroot] Help needed with cross-compiling libotr Stefan Fröberg
2013-02-28 15:06 ` Stefan Fröberg
2013-02-28 15:21 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-02-28 15:36 ` Markos Chandras
2013-02-28 15:43 ` Jeremy Rosen
2013-02-28 15:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-02-28 16:01 ` Stefan Fröberg [this message]
2013-02-28 15:43 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-02-28 15:49 ` Markos Chandras
2013-02-28 15:50 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-02-28 15:51 ` Gustavo Zacarias
2013-02-28 15:53 ` Markos Chandras
[not found] ` <512F7E8D.5070200@petroprogram.com>
2013-02-28 16:04 ` Stefan Fröberg
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