[Shotwell] Raspberry Pi and Shotwell

[Clinton Rogers]

Hi Chris,

Apologies for having a bit of a geek moment here, but I think this
should be eminently possible with a little elbow grease and sincerely
hope you succeed.  Back during the 0.10 era, I managed to compile it
on OpenPandora (after several days spent plumbing the murky depths of
the Angstrom repositories).

I couldn't get a sensible cross-compilation environment, so I just
compiled on the unit itself.  Compilation took considerable time and
patience and it didn't run too well with a lot of images in it (it's a
first-gen model with 256MB RAM and I don't have swap enabled, so I saw
the OOM killer quite a bit); there were some other user-experience
problems as well (all the dialog boxes, for example,  kind of 'expect'
the target computer  to have a display taller than 480 pixels).
Still, though, it did run; on a Raspberry Pi, with the faster CPU and
more memory, things should go a lot more smoothly.

Please do let us know how things go; this would be pretty cool if it
worked.  (I used to work for a firm that, among other things, made
children's game machines that ran embedded Linux under the hood, and
somewhere along the way, I seem to have developed a bit of a soft spot
in my heart for very small machines that can do very big things...)

Best of luck,
Clint



On 09/08/2012, lombaardcj at gmail.com <lombaardcj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> I see it as a challenge work trying out.  I love Shotwell and the memories
> around it.  Also throw in a mention when people start talking photo
> management software and how they struggle to keep it all together(without
> Shotwell).
>
> Will keep you up to date.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
> Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Dingle <adam at yorba.org>
> Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:56:09
> To: <lombaardcj at gmail.com>
> Cc: <shotwell at lists.yorba.org>
> Subject: Re: [Shotwell] Raspberry Pi and Shotwell
>
> Chris,
>
> We've never heard of anyone trying to run Shotwell on a Raspberry Pi.  We'll
> be curious to hear how it works out.  :)  Cheers -
>
> adam
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:01 AM, lombaardcj at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi team Yorba,
>
> Ever had a mention of Shotwell be able to run on the now famous Raspberry Pi
> "ARM based" mini computer?
>
> I'm in the process of running my own tests to see if it's possible from
> Shotwell source.
>
> Thanks to your help, I have been able to compile many a version of Shotwell
> from git source over the last year on Ubuntu.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
> Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!
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