[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] programming questions

[From: Tommi Komulainen]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 17:07 +0300, ext Miko Nieminen wrote:
> On 10/07/06, Dionisis Petromanolakis <dpetroma at unipi.gr> wrote:
>         1. how can i create and use threads?
> 
> Currently pthread is supported, so you can use that. Please correct me
> if I'm wrong.

Or GThreads if you're using glib. (It's a thin wrapper on top of
pthreads anyway, but supposedly more portable.)


>         2. how can i use xml parser (xpat), is it installed somewhere
>         or i have to download it? Is there an rdf/xml parser available
>         in maemo?

There is also GMarkupParser in glib. It might be suitable for some use
cases.


> You can use libxml2, it's included in the product. If you meant expat,
> it is not supported.
> 
> Full list of packages, which are included in the SDK and in the
> product (ITOS2006), can be found from:
> http://repository.maemo.org/stable/mistral/maemo-packages--2.0.html

expat is on that list, as well as on the device.. Why do you say it is
unsupported?


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Tommi Komulainen                            <tommi.komulainen at nokia.com>