Re: Perl for Windows Mobile ?

Is there any specific reason why it has to be Windows? I notice that mobile Linux is becoming popular - probably because it can be configured much lighter than Windows for limited memory devices - has more robust system software; and for at least the last 5 years embedded Linux PDAs have been available. In addition, Linux is a more natural platform for Perl with more versions supported.

Update: I also note that later versions of the PDA device you mention, the Sharp Zaurus, can be bought with embedix, an embedded linux variant, although there are clearly loads of choices out there and I'd look at http://uclinux.org/

-M

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Re^2: Perl for Windows Mobile ? by renodino (Curate) on Jul 03, 2006 at 15:38 UTC
Is there any specific reason why it has to be Windows ? Like it or not, WinMobile has pretty much captured the PDA/SmartPhone market (at least in the US). I actually looked into the Nokia 9300 (running Symbian), but the US model has neither WiFi nor a camera. I occasionally hear of Linux phones, but they never seem to show up w/ any of the major carriers. Having been an early adopter of the Z, and then getting burned by spotty support, and start/stop product releases, (not to mention extremely low battery life), I'm very reluctant to buck trends in that arena any more. I'm certainly not going to try to negotiate w/ my cell carrier to activate an unsupported phone. The Z was nice for loading up Perl and other *nix tools...but if I'm going to have to do self-support, I'd rather do it for Perl than every other aspect of the OS. And other than the Perl support issue, I really don't care about the OS, as long as it does what I need and is painless to acquire and support. I can walk into my local Verizon store, hand my CC, and walk out w/ an activated VX6700 running WinMobile5 using my current phone number. And if things break, I can call VZ and bitch until they fix or replace it.	[reply]

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Re^2: Perl for Windows Mobile ?
by renodino (Curate) on Jul 03, 2006 at 15:38 UTC

Is there any specific reason why it has to be Windows ?

Like it or not, WinMobile has pretty much captured the PDA/SmartPhone market (at least in the US). I actually looked into the Nokia 9300 (running Symbian), but the US model has neither WiFi nor a camera. I occasionally hear of Linux phones, but they never seem to show up w/ any of the major carriers.

Having been an early adopter of the Z, and then getting burned by spotty support, and start/stop product releases, (not to mention extremely low battery life), I'm very reluctant to buck trends in that arena any more. I'm certainly not going to try to negotiate w/ my cell carrier to activate an unsupported phone. The Z was nice for loading up Perl and other *nix tools...but if I'm going to have to do self-support, I'd rather do it for Perl than every other aspect of the OS.

And other than the Perl support issue, I really don't care about the OS, as long as it does what I need and is painless to acquire and support. I can walk into my local Verizon store, hand my CC, and walk out w/ an activated VX6700 running WinMobile5 using my current phone number. And if things break, I can call VZ and bitch until they fix or replace it.

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