It looks as if I'm going to embark on the development of a rather involved editor for structured text. It will ideally run both on a conventional Debian Linux system and an N800. The text to be edited may be as large as a few megabytes, and may be spread among several files. It will be subject to revision control. Eventually, there may be application-specific interactions with the revision control system.
Of course I'd like to prototype it first, in the hope that either (a) the prototype will be good enough for now, or (b) it'll tell me that the whole design is wrong before I've wasted too much time on it. It has been suggested that python would be an appropriate language, because it's available both on the n800 and Debian, and is probably fairly compatible between them. But I have a few questions: (a) What library(ies) should I be using for user-interfacing. Are they reasonably compatible between Debian and maemo? (b) Are there a ready-made text-editing widget I can start with? The complete structured text will contain a lot of reasonably small sub-texts that can be edited conventionally, at least in the prototype. So I'd like to prototyoe it with a ready-made editor handling the smaller pieces of text (currently the pargest such piece is about 25K) ans saving the structural part for the regular UI library. (c) Any problems you can already see coming, based on experience with these tools? (Here I'm not looking for generic software-engineering advice, but I'd like to know if there are any specific gotchas involving python or the recommended libraries. I've been programming for decades, but not in python). (d) Of course, advice that I should be considering entirely different tools and methods is also welcome/ -- hendrik _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
