[Symbian-hacks] Packaging Symbian Python Stuff

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:36:05PM +0000, Nick Burch wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> >I couldn't find bmconv, to create the bitmap. When I found it, it was 
> >confusing. Once I actually created an mbm image, genaif choked on it. 
> >(Generating a 80MB AIF file before I killed it.)
> 
> I think when I was playing with c++ code for symbian, I had to run bmconv 
> under wine, but it did then work.

Do you have any mbm images I could try running through genaif? I don't
really care *what* they are, I just want to see if genaif is broken for
me, or what.

> That said, I found the c++ symbian stuff such a faff to even print "hello 
> world" that I never bothered with it
> 
> >The problem is I found, after 6 hours attempting to package the damn 
> >thing, that I just didn't care anymore. (Another example of where "Just 
> >do it!" is a lot more difficult than a commenter might otherwise 
> >assume.)
> 
> I've been sending my source code to the phone so often that it never 
> occured to me to package it. If only it was possible to use bluetooth to 
> talk to a gps AND use the python bluetooth console :(

Heh. You'd need double connectiosn for that, not something you're likely
to see in a phone atm, I don't think. If only more platforms had some
kind of built-in Bluetooth support in Python...

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Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer