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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: [RaaA] Weekly status reportRe: [RaaA] Weekly status report
From: Jonathan Gordon <jdgordy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:28:36 +1000 On 15 June 2010 00:14, Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz_at_student.htw-berlin.de> wrote: > I'm sorry that I left out the last week's report, the uni kept me busy this > week (forunately at least the devcon attenders are aware of my progress). > But it paid of, my Rockbox presentation went really really well :P > > Back to the topic: My project is in a good shape I think. I can actually > build an SDL application right now (not defining SIMULATOR or any target). > You can look at the code at http://repo.or.cz/w/kugel-rb.git > > However, it's not quite finished yet. To make it distributable I have to > work out how to the file system and how to install it. > > a) We collected some ideas two weeks ago but we didn't manage to find a > consensus I think. I still think exposing the full / is unnecessary but OTOH > I wouldn't want to limit users. But it could also be annoying to always > start off at / when browsing for music. I guess we need a way to link/mount > (configurable) directories into the start point of the file browser for > convinience but then it could get tricky with the database (I fear the > redundancy would make it list files multiple times). > > b) Where to install it? /usr/local/bin (or C:\Program Files\Rockbox) comes > into my mind, but then there's the problem of not having write access in the > installation routine. Installing somewhere into $HOME seems weird. Another > idea would be installing the binaries to /usr/local/bin, the plugins/codecs > to /usr/local/share, and see what changes are needed to de-attach them from > the .rockbox directory. > > Best regards. > for b we should at least skirt the issue and put the executable next to .rockbox/ and then the paths are obvious (so it is portable app....). I guess OS dependant paths do make sense, but do we really need to worry about that yet? Received on 2010-06-14 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |