[PythonCE] Python CE on a Intel XScale industrial device.

2008-07-28 Thread Lachezar Dobrev
* Apologies for the resending, the first message did not go through. * Hello list members. Recently our project (Java based) grew into the mobile devices range. However the devices had a serious flaw (for us): the Windows CE operating system. For some time we were able to develop based

Re: [PythonCE] Python CE on a Intel XScale industrial device.

2008-07-28 Thread Jared Forsyth
Firstly, the Active Sync method merely automates the copy .CAB/install process--you're not missing out in anything. The only problem I can thing of is that of your processor: your device runs XSale, while I believe the .CABs are compiled for ARM On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:27 AM, Lachezar Dobrev

Re: [PythonCE] Python CE on a Intel XScale industrial device.

2008-07-28 Thread Alex Mandel
The confusion about activesync is that if the program had been compiled for multiple architectures then the processor specific cabs would all be inside the exe installer and activesync would select the appropriate one for the particular device. It sounds like you're going to need to figure out

Re: [PythonCE] pygame / distutils

2008-07-28 Thread Alexandre Delattre
Hi, I've been able to make pygame-ctypes works with SDL.dll and SDL_Image.dll built from unofficial wince project files of SDL, with very minimal changes. I'm keen to package this and make it public, but you must note this is very experimental and is a bit slow. The constraints explained

Re: [PythonCE] The State of Affairs

2008-07-28 Thread John Hampton
Alexandre Delattre wrote: I was thinking that a first step to enhance distribution of PythonCE apps, would be to be able to create easily .cab for them. .cab are installable over the air, as well by cross installing from desktop. If I met enough positive feedback, I'll start trying to