Re: Informal poll, change to git?

2011-06-03 Thread Ray Lambert
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 13:10:03, Paul Louden wrote: > Ideally we should start with "what do we want from a version control > system?" What role does it serve in our project? How do we intend to > use it? What features does it need to have? What features would be > nice to add on to those? Most of the

Re: Informal poll, change to git?

2011-06-02 Thread Ray Lambert
I haven't done any rockbox hacking in a while (other than changing the keymap on new releases to work around the broken REC button on my X5) but I have served as lead developer on two projects in my company in the last several years. I transitioned one of those projects from Subversion to Mercu

Re: fs#10766

2010-08-12 Thread Ray Lambert
I'm not terribly interested in this feature but an idea occurred to me while scanning your messages about 'undo'. How about this: a click in the opposing direction within a short time -- say 1 or 2 seconds -- jumps back to the previous position *without* halving the distance. I presume the t

Re: fs#10766

2010-08-12 Thread Ray Lambert
I'm not terribly interested in this feature but an idea occurred to me while scanning your messages about 'undo'. How about this: a click in the opposing direction within a short time -- say 1 or 2 seconds -- jumps back to the previous position *without* halving the distance. I presume the t

Re: rockbox-dev Digest, Vol 45, Issue 42

2009-06-19 Thread Ray Lambert
rockbox-dev-requ...@cool.haxx.se wrote: Hello friends! I'm happy to announce that Rockbox 3.3 was just released! FYI: The source archive appears to be missing from the server. I'm getting a 404 error on: http://download.rockbox.org/release/3.3/rockbox-3.3.7z ~ray

RE: Opinions about scroll padding, FS#9455

2008-10-26 Thread Ray Lambert
XavierGr wrote: Path FS#9455 has stirred up some discussion on IRC which led to a dead end. Currently, forward-scrolling (bidirectional scrolling isn't a matter) in Rockbox pads exactly 3 spaces at the end of the string, to differentiate between the last and first letters of the string. Personal

Re: Licensing and Copyright Issues

2007-09-20 Thread Ray Lambert
DervishD wrote: No, IANAL, but I read Groklaw a lot... ;) Well, that's almost like being a lawyer without having to eat human flesh ... Very funny! I love it! :-) ~ray

Re: Licensing and Copyright Issues (GPL discussion)

2007-09-20 Thread Ray Lambert
Sorry for being so late with this response. It's been a busy week and I really wanted to respond to Daniel's comments... Daniel Stenberg wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Ray Lambert wrote: The GPL has a specific reason for existing. It's to protect the hard work of programmers fr

Re: Licensing and Copyright Issues

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Lambert
Karl Kurbjun wrote: > On Ray's arguments: I do not think that relicensing would ever be a > possibility unless we had our own copyright holding entity - I doubt that > the FSF would ever agree to let us relicense under anything but the GPLv3 > or above. I am sure there would also be plenty of head

Re: Licensing and Copyright Issues

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Lambert
Bryan Childs wrote: > On 9/11/07, Ray Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For my part, I am strongly against "TiVo-ization" and I believe that if >> the GPLv3 DRM provisions prevent someone from taking our code and >> "TiVo-izing" it without our kno

Re: Licensing and Copyright Issues

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Lambert
DervishD wrote: > * Ray Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: >> I would recommend that, upon making this move, we require that all >> submitters henceforth explicitly license under "GPLv3 or later" > > What's wrong with "GPLv3", without the

Re: Licensing and Copyright Issues

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Lambert
Bryan Childs wrote: > > Just so this thread isn't hijacked / diverted : > > http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=7694.0 Thanks for the link. Very sad... ~ray

Re: Licensing and Copyright Issues

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Lambert
Karl Kurbjun wrote: > Are the DRM clauses still in the GPLv3? I personally do not like DRM and > I would rather it have never come about, but in the off chance that a > company really decided that they liked the project and wanted to use it > as their primary firmware, what would those clauses mea

Re: Licensing and Copyright Issues

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Lambert
Here's my $.02 ... First, as for my code, I'm happy releasing it under any version of the GPL and I actually encourage the group to move to GPLv3. I would recommend that, upon making this move, we require that all submitters henceforth explicitly license under "GPLv3 or later" and we should chang

Re: 1 standard generic callback system

2007-06-06 Thread Ray Lambert
Jonathan Gordon wrote: > On 06/06/07, Ray Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just to add some fuel to the fire, I also implemented a callback >> interface when I wrote my A/B repeat feature. It's defined in >> firmware/export/audio.h and implemented in firmwar

Re: 1 standard generic callback system

2007-06-05 Thread Ray Lambert
Jonathan Gordon wrote: > hey all, > so, in IRC we somehow got onto the problem that the filebrowser needs > to know when a track changes (so the follow playlist can work > properly), and scrobbler and database also need to know when this > happens. > playback.c has a few callbacks but only allows o

Re: Devcon 2007 is over

2007-05-22 Thread Ray Lambert
Daniel Stenberg wrote: > We discussed and actually agreed on a fair amount of random issues. Lots of > bad jokes, fine Belgian beers and the webcam feed contributed to the fun. Daniel, if I had known you would have Belgian beers I would have made the trip from Boston! :P (That, and the fact that

Re: linux IDE for rockbox

2006-06-12 Thread Ray Lambert
Kate has a nice built-in "Find In Files" feature -- look for the tab beside the Terminal tab. It's basically a GUI front-end for grep, but it's convenient: no mucking with a separate console and the FiF window tiles alongside your documents. It also has things like word completion, code folding,

Re: 3.0 release announcement

2006-05-15 Thread Ray Lambert
Another $0.02 just to make your pockets jingle... I agree with Daniel that there has to be a line drawn. At some point you've got to just do it. The real question is: where do you draw the line. I disagree with those calling for a beta release. The problem with a beta release is that it im

Re: Remove PluginJewels from RockBox downloads immediately

2006-04-15 Thread Ray Lambert
In adversarial situations such as this, it is usually best to give as little information as possible. You never know when your adversary can find a way to turn something around and use it against you. For example, your statement below can be viewed as an admission that you/we *were* violating

Dead JBFMR?

2006-04-11 Thread Ray Lambert
Hi, I think my Archos JBFMR has died. I'm hoping someone may know a trick to fix it or at least be able to confirm it's fate... Everything seems to work fine but it won't play; there's no sound output and the track time does not advance. It goes through all the motions, I can still FFWD an

Re: Signing off.

2006-03-09 Thread Ray Lambert
Cam wrote: If there's a policy, let's see it, let the policy makers defend their choices. They don't have to explain their choices to anyone and you're in no position to demand that they do.  They have no obligation to you or anyone here.  This is their choice to make and they've made th

Re: A-B Repeat for SWCODEC platforms

2006-01-07 Thread Ray Lambert
Brandon Low wrote: Hey, I've just gotten AB repeat to work on the iRiver H340 platform (really not much to it, I was able to use the existing code with minor modifications). The existing AB repeat mode is enabled by a repeat mode option. This seems tedius and unnecessary on platforms lik

Re: Dynamic memory allocation?

2006-01-03 Thread Ray Lambert
Tobias Heimann wrote: Hi guys, I've just started to develop a plugin for rockbox and stumbled over the memory allocation: Is there anything like malloc() and free() in rockbox and if yes, which headers do I have to include for that? So far, I've only found buffer_alloc() in buffer.h, but th

Re: amiconn: apps settings.c,1.319,1.320

2005-11-07 Thread Ray Lambert
FWIW: I agree with those who have voted to keep this 'auto next directory' feature an option and set to OFF by default, and for the same reasons (i.e. established directory structure and usage patterns). Beyond that though, I'd like to remind folks that (IMHO) it's not generally a good idea to cha