[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo 2.0 final release available

[From: Tommi Komulainen]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 22:16 -0300, ext Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote:
> 
> I also know about that... but I want to know from Nokia guys if they
> expect someday to get it included by default, and if yes, what's the
> showstopper so far... if it's the size, how many megabytes would be
> ok?

Can't discuss product features, but personally I'd guess when the
tradeoffs in writing applications in python are more beneficial than
writing them with C/C++. Basically you'd need at least one application
written in python shipping with the devices or software updates to
warrant including python by default.

I haven't been following the python progress too closely, but I believe
the current issues are:
     1. horrible startup time
     2. memory consumption
     3. flash consumption?
     4. run-time speed?
(And I can imagine we could help startup time by sacrificing memory.)

As python (bindings) are only now reaching stable(?) state for
developers I'd expect the next logical step would be to evaluate the
performance more closely to get some hard numbers. Then it's easier to
see how far we are.

Though with the application installer not having python by default
shouldn't be too big a problem for deploying python applications.


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Tommi Komulainen                            <tommi.komulainen at nokia.com>