From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefan_Fr=F6berg?= Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:01:54 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Help needed with cross-compiling libotr In-Reply-To: <20130228164816.4b62ebad@skate> References: <1907015096.10640.1362066181409.JavaMail.root@openwide.fr> <20130228164816.4b62ebad@skate> Message-ID: <512F7F72.8050903@petroprogram.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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