Raspberry PI

[Roderick McCALL]

Dear All,

My slice of PI will hopefully arrive soon :)

Ken is right to say that the market is primarily educational/academic and therefore given LiveCode's nice fit into that area I'd imagine that a version for the PI could be quite successful. If LiveCode supported the PI it would make a very compelling choice, indeed some establishments may hold off buying additional development tools if they do not support the PI. This is especially true when you consider that the PI already comes by default with Python (which I also like), so there has to be a serious justification to spend that extra cash.

I can perhaps see the justification for LiveCode more within schools who may be playing around with the PI more than say in universities as in the latter case many people are likely to already have skills in Python (and may be reluctant to try something else). In our case I was the only LiveCoder in the building until very recently. I am not sure what if any programming languages are used in UK Schools these days but in my day it was COMAL:)

Knowing Kevin though I am sure his little grey cells have given some thought to this already.

Cheers,

rod

Dr Rod McCall
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT)
The University of Luxembourg
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On Jul 9, 2012, at 8:39 AM, Ken Corey wrote:

Well, strictly speaking the Android effort is based on an ARM chip, so ARM chips would seem to pose no significant problem...and there is a Linux version, after all...

I think "Can't be done" might be a bit strong. Smells a bit more of "hasn't been done yet" to me.

I saw a quote on the Raspberry site where they said they've now sold > 300,000 devices.  Considering the target market is academia, where they would consider buying in bulk...

Well, I'm sure Kevin and crew have thought about it.

There's naught we can do from the user side.  Runrev just needs to see the financial reasons to do it.

I am curious, though...how many academic copies of LiveCode would have to be sold for it to make financial sense to release a port for Raspberry? 2000? 10000?

-Ken

On 09/07/2012 04:39, Andre Garzia wrote:
Can't be done. There is no LiveCode engine for ARM Linux.



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