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#74
Originally Posted by fms View Post
Do you by any chance remember that Nokia already ships J2ME VM with both S40 and S60 phones? In other words, Nokia already has a PhoneME implementation.
yes, but not for Maemo. and even if porting from S60 to Maemo would be easy, nokia still would have to license it for the new platform/device.

Why should "community" port Jalimo which is already ported to the tablet and has packages available from Diablo Extras?
well, the last news concerning maemo on the project site is this:

"Simultaneous with the launch of the wiki, we have started to support
maemo4. Currently cacao, classpath and SWT are tested and work fine.
They have the same features and limitations, as for maemo3. But we hope
to improve the support on maemo4, soon. Since maemo moved to gtk2.10 and
cairo, we have some more options on this platform."


to me, that suggests that even more work will be needed to optimize it for maemo5. granted, the build for chinook might run out of the box ( i haven't read anything from people who got a n900 already, links are welcome ).
if it does run well, there is no need for this option and i will not add it.

though that quote also suggests that there is not much activity any more (this entry is from 2007), and if many people vote maybe that could change and even attract new devs for the project.