Irene (Shi Ying) Huang wrote: > Hi, Stephen > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 10:15 -0800, Stephen Lau wrote: > >> Optional dependency for the iPod Sync extension. Without it, you >> won't >> be able to sync to iPods - but other functionality should be unfazed. >> > We had tried to integrate gtkpod with libgpod into Solaris before. > However, we put the project on hold because of some issues. cc'ing > Jerry, who knows more about this. > Songbird uses the concept of a first-run bundle where users are prompted to download and install OS-specific add-ons upon the first time they run Songbird. So the iPod add-on (and thus libgpod) aren't ever actually distributed as part of the initial package.
I believe this means there wouldn't be any issues with libgpod being part of the OSR. >>> - sqlite - This is not a supported database by Sun, so it might be >>> >> hard >> >>> to get this in. Not sure if it would be hard to make Songbird >>> >> work >> >>> with an existing supported database instead. >>> >> Ick, yeah it'll actually be quite hard to make it work with another >> database. This is the database library we use for all the >> library/metadata storage. >> >> How hard is "hard" to get it in? >> > We are working to get a shared copy of SQLite into Solaris, hoping that > it can be supported by database group. > However, if you are working towards putting SQLite onto OpenSolaris > only, I don't think there's a problem. The spec file on SFE is well > written we've been using it for a period. > > Ideally I think our project plan would be to make packages available via something like SFE. I would really like to see it available as either part of Indiana or SXCE, depending on the timeframe though. So if that means filling out all the OSRs and trying to work with the shared copy of SQLite, then so be it. :-) cheers, steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
