Palm Developer Network Blog has recently stated that the official Mojo SDK would be delayed to at least end of summer. Some effort would however be put on the early access program for those who really want to access it as soon as possible. Here is the plan (taken from PDNB):
- Palm will accelerate the growth of the early access program, expanding as quickly as resources allow. Over the next few weeks, the program will grow from hundreds to thousands of developers.
- Simultaneously, Palm will begin publishing more content outside the early access program, and launch new confidentiality rules that will allow early Mojo developers to communicate more freely with the rest of the world.
- As soon as they can, they will open the SDK to all legitimate requests.
More details on Palm Developer Network Blog.
Update: An alpha version of the SDK seem to have surfaced on BitTorrent, Rapidshare and other community sharing sites. If you are not afraid of using those sites, you can search for "PalmSDK-Win-0.3.4.exe" to get an early preview.
Despite only the windows version as been leaked (as far as I know), it can be also tested GNU/Linux too.
The SDK consists of a diskimage, some java programs and bunch of bat files...
Here is the procedure to boot the Palm pré on a debian system :
Using virtualbox-ose
export PalmSDK=/usr/local/opt/PalmSDK-Win-0.3.4export MACHINE_NAME=PalmSDK
sudo aptitude install virtualbox
virtualbox
# create new linux machine
# HDD=${PalmSDK}/share/emulator/images/sdk47nova-cust-image-sdk47.vmdk
# CDROM=${PalmSDK}/share/emulator/images/sdk47/grub.iso
VBoxManage setextradata "${MACHINE_NAME}" "CustomVideoMode" "320x480x32"
# then start machine
Or using
kvm/qemu (wrong resolution but works) :
export PalmSDK=/usr/local/opt/PalmSDK-Win-0.3.4
sudo aptitude install kvm
cd ${PalmSDK}/share/emulator/images/
kvm -cdrom grub.iso nova-cust-image-sdk47.vmdk -boot d -vga std -snapshot -m 256 -show-cursor
# grub prompt: return
# linux prompt: return ; 341
# will print error about "PmCertificateMgrService" but can be ignored for now
Finally the ".bat files" can be easily translated to posix shell or run with wine, but more investigation is needed on how to deploy apps ( Default palm-install: Connection refused ).