Re: Ubuntu on tabets
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Mar 22, 2013
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1. http://jiggawatt.org/badc0de/android/eu/
2. I have on my hard drive: android-eu-4.0a3.zip
My understanding was that this was (despite the name) a port of the Linux/GNU version to the ARM platform, not a native Android port.
Really???
Yes.
eubin-arm-cortex-a8-2012-01-13-ee49c6b8a340.tar.gz
That's the Linux/GNU ARM platform version....
Till a year ago or even less ARM vesion and Android version were more or less synonymous, except that each ARM processor required a somewhat different version.
Ok, fair point. A linux-arm version is required to do a native Android version (except for Android-x86), and since the ARM platforms that were easiest to access were probably Android devices, it was easy (even for a dev like myself) to call the linux-arm version an Android version.
However, you seemed to argue that there is a distinction below:
With the introduction of Ubuntu on tablets, there should not be a need for separate version of Euphoria for android tablets, unless , of course, you do not want to install Ubuntu on your tablet.
I first read this as meaning that there should not be a separate version of Euphoria for linux-arm and another for native Android. (By "native Android" I mean a version that can be installed via an APK manager, and which uses the Android SDK (like android.widgets) to provide a native look a feel.)
You've sinced clarified what you meant, but other devs have agreed that what we have is still not a native Android and a distinction exists between an Android app and a plain linux-arm binary that lacks such integration (even though a liux-arm binary can, under the right conditions, run on an Android platform).
Therefore, I'll reiterate what I said:
My understanding was that this was (despite the name) a port of the Linux/GNU version to the ARM platform, not a native Android port.
Other than in the sense of the lack of multiarch support in a single binary, we do not have different versions of Euphoria for x86 and ARM. It's all the same thing.
4. AND I also have an interesting cnversation where a mod by the name of "jimcbrown" corrected a very knowledgeable person by the name "Ira" in that thread, which I am sure you would find an interesting reread. http://openeuphoria.org/forum/m/117399.wc
I reread it. It was ok but not super interesting. What was the point?
A mod by the name of "jimcbrown" corrected a very knowledgeable person by the name "Ira", and the same mod a bit later "corrected" EUWX in an exactly contradictory manner. A much higher degree of consistency is expected of a mod.
I don't see any contradiction. Other than the link itself, the term Android is not even used in that thread.
