Re: [Mixxx-devel] iPhone syncing on Linux

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Davison
Just to back this up: http://gentoo-portage.com/media-libs/libgpod/Dep#ptabs The required deps for libgpod are: >=dev-libs/glib-2.16 sys-apps/sg3_utils dev-libs/libxml2 Which means that if we use libgpod in Mixxx we have to at least be able to build all of those in MSVC. Which is not necessaril

Re: [Mixxx-devel] iPhone syncing on Linux

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Davison
Hi, It depends on at least glib. Which is something we could live without. The Palm Pre isn't trying to open the xml as a database, so I don't think that's relevant here. And packages like banshee are trying to *write* to the iPod database, which requires fiddling around with Apple's hashing algo

Re: [Mixxx-devel] iPhone syncing on Linux

2009-10-28 Thread Owen Williams
The ipod db? Often. Apple has made it a regular practice to tweak protocols with every release to foil third-party attempts at interoperability. See also banshee's experience trying to maintain compatibility, and the palm pre's. Is libgpod really dependent on gtk? owen On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 09:

Re: [Mixxx-devel] iPhone syncing on Linux

2009-10-28 Thread Adam Davison
Yeah but libgpod has this weird dependency on the gtk libs... So if it's not too much work I'd say support it natively... how much can the database schema for a music library change realistically? Adam 2009/10/28 Sean M. Pappalardo - D.J. Pegasus : > > > Albert Santoni wrote: >> So my question is

Re: [Mixxx-devel] iPhone syncing on Linux

2009-10-27 Thread Sean M. Pappalardo - D.J. Pegasus
Albert Santoni wrote: > So my question is - Why would we even > bother using libgpod when we can (probably easily) open that SQLite > database ourselves? Good point. But then we'd have to keep tabs on their DB schema and change when it does. If we abstract via libgpod, we don't have to worry ab

Re: [Mixxx-devel] iPhone syncing on Linux

2009-10-27 Thread Albert Santoni
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 21:55 -0400, Garth Dahlstrom wrote: > A friend sent me this link discussing iphone sync support on Linux and > how it will be introduced into libgpod with some minor changes to > Amarok / Rhythmbox... > > http://marcansoft.com/blog/2009/10/iphone-syncing-on-linux/ > >

[Mixxx-devel] iPhone syncing on Linux

2009-10-27 Thread Garth Dahlstrom
A friend sent me this link discussing iphone sync support on Linux and how it will be introduced into libgpod with some minor changes to Amarok / Rhythmbox... http://marcansoft.com/blog/2009/10/iphone-syncing-on-linux/