How many phones in the world do you think can run a full Pylons development environment? Although I'd like to be proven wrong, I'm quite sure the answer is: One. The Nokia N900.

It runs on Linux and has all the needed Python support, so I decided to go ahead and try installing Pylons. Everything went smoothly according to the normal installation instructions and in no time the development environment was up and running. The N900 is truly a versatile mobile device.

Just a few notes on the install;
- The development environment needs to be installed outside of MyDocs. The reason for this is that MyDocs is a FAT32 partition. /home/user is an excellent place considering disk space.
- Some warnings relating to C optimization were generated. This is because by default the N900 doesn't have a C compiler installed. The Pylons development environment works fine without this optimization, but if you wish you can first install a C compiler (gcc for example, some instructions here).

Some more screenshots in my Picasa albums, including a screenshot of a new version of The Argonaut running via the Pylons environment on my N900. Hope to get it in such a shape that I can replace this old PHP monster with the new Pylons version soon.

[ programming // python // nokia // maemo // n900 // pylons // web design ]