This looks cool; thanks. I've just started to get back into Mirah and
the complexity of the Android build chain is a real drag.
> So during the sessions today, I hacked together what is tentatively called
> Mirahndroid: https://github.com/jackowayed/mirahndroid
>
> It just runs `android create project` with the args you pass, adds the ant
> task that makes it compile the mirah code, replaces the FooActivity.java
> that android generates with a FooActivity.mirah, and changes a line of
> config that needs to be changed for unknown reasons. It's awesome how easy
> Mirah makes it.
Cool; I'll take a look at this. It occurs to me that the "android"
tool has what looks like a rudimentary package manager; you can add
sources and see what packages each source offers. So in the long term,
probably the right thing to do is to set up our own Mirah source that
can provide the "android" project generator with the skeletons and
dependencies it needs to spit out and compile Mirah-powered projects.
But since Mirah-on-Android is still in its infancy that is probably a
bit premature.
> Anyway, I just wanted to let people know that it's out there, and also ask
> for suggestions of a more rational name.
My Javanese is pretty rusty, but I don't think it has a word for
Robot. =) Perhaps you could use the name of one of the cities on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_language ?
-Phil
Pindah is great. It's actually an Indonesian word as well, borrowed from the Javanese. But the movement connotations are perfect.
-Phil