Hi all!
Since an offline encyclopedia is most valuable on mobile devices, I worked on building ZimReader for the Openmoko Neo.
As a start I did a native build on a Debian (hackable:1 [3]) driven Openmoko Freerunner. After fixing some minor build issue ([1], [2]), I can now browse Wikipedia offline on the phone.
ZimReader performs amazingly well on the limited resources of the device. I use it in conjunction with woosh, a browser that comes with hackable:1. The content resides on SD-card. A full-text search takes around 5s, mostly even less.
Since I'm not too much into packaging, I wrapped up a tar ball for those interested in binaries [4]. Please see the Readme for installation instructions.
Note: The binaries will most likely _not_ run on OE-based distributions (OM2009, SHR). They have only been tested on hackable1. I'll try to supply packages for other distros, as soon as I find the time.
Thank's a lot to the openzim team for their great work!
Cheers, Marc
[1] http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6 [2] http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5 [3] http://www.hackable1.org/wiki/Main_Page [4] http://www.gut-informierte-kreise.de/openmoko/openzim/
Hi Marc,
please excuse my late reply.
I am very happy to see that porting is going on on new volunteered projects.
Now I am interested if your patches went into the openZIM trunk. Then I would like to see a package from you which we can put on our download page for other users.
Are you interested to work on that with us? If so I suggest to you to sign up for our developers meeting: http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2009-2
The vote for the best date is still open: http://www.doodle.com/xaf4tzpuwk2xf59h
Greets,
Manuel
Am Montag, 20. Juli 2009 19:46:13 schrieb Marc Bantle:
Hi all!
Since an offline encyclopedia is most valuable on mobile devices, I worked on building ZimReader for the Openmoko Neo.
As a start I did a native build on a Debian (hackable:1 [3]) driven Openmoko Freerunner. After fixing some minor build issue ([1], [2]), I can now browse Wikipedia offline on the phone.
ZimReader performs amazingly well on the limited resources of the device. I use it in conjunction with woosh, a browser that comes with hackable:1. The content resides on SD-card. A full-text search takes around 5s, mostly even less.
Since I'm not too much into packaging, I wrapped up a tar ball for those interested in binaries [4]. Please see the Readme for installation instructions.
Note: The binaries will most likely _not_ run on OE-based distributions (OM2009, SHR). They have only been tested on hackable1. I'll try to supply packages for other distros, as soon as I find the time.
Thank's a lot to the openzim team for their great work!
Cheers, Marc
[1] http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6 [2] http://bugs.openzim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5 [3] http://www.hackable1.org/wiki/Main_Page [4] http://www.gut-informierte-kreise.de/openmoko/openzim/
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Hi Manuel,
Manuel Schneider schrieb:
Now I am interested if your patches went into the openZIM trunk.
I saw matching commits both for the build issue in cxxtools and for the alignment bug in zimlib. I will soon do some testing.
Then I would like to see a package from you which we can put on our download page for other users.
Sofar I only wrapped up some tarballs. I want to have a look at packaging for debian and openembedded platforms to supply some decent packages. Haven't found the time yet, though.
Are you interested to work on that with us?
I'll be pleased to help, if I can :-)
If so I suggest to you to sign up for our developers meeting: http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2009-2
The vote for the best date is still open: http://www.doodle.com/xaf4tzpuwk2xf59h
Thanks for the invitation! I can't promiss anything now, but I'll follow the list closely and when I see a chance to attend, I'll let you know in time.
Cheers, Marc