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#10 OSX Client

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2003-10-22
2003-10-22
Sean Straus
No

Would love to see a Max OSX client as it shouldn't be
too tough to derive from the linux client. I'm not good
enough to do it, but could certainly test the heck out of
it!

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  • Bob Dole

    Bob Dole - 2003-10-26

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    I would love to see a Mac OS X Client. Safari support would also
    be awesome! I would volunteer to test it =)

     
  • Sean Straus

    Sean Straus - 2003-10-27

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    Actually what is the status of the linux version? Maybe if it's gui-
    less I could make an attempt at doing a first round port. I can
    usually get stuff to compile at least. I'm just no gui programmer.
    Where the heck is the real CVS? I see things about a version 1.6
    but on CVS there's only a version 1.4. I don't see any linux version
    although it's listed elsewhere.

     
  • Daniel Gehriger

    Daniel Gehriger - 2003-10-28

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    Scstraus,

    There's no Linux port at the time being. The non-GUI part of
    the code is currently using several Windows API functions for

    - locating the bookmarks
    - the HTTP connection to the server

    Apart from these function calls, which have to be replaced by
    their UNIX equivalents, the code certainly will compile. It
    already compiles using GCC 3.2 on Windows.

    As for the GUI part: we need to decide what toolkit to use:

    - GTK
    - FOX
    - ...

    The CVS: the 1.6 release is tagged with "client-1-6-4". But
    new development is taking place on the
    branch "CLIENT_1_7_DEV". If you are looking at the CVS using
    ViewCVS, you have to select that branch in the drop-down
    list at the bottom of the page:

    http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bookmarksync/client-
    windows/?only_with_tag=CLIENT_1_7_DEV

    The file release area contains a ZIP file with just these
    sources.

    - Daniel

     
  • Sean Straus

    Sean Straus - 2003-11-08

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    I'll take a look, but I don't know jack about win32 api's
    (unfortunately). Once there's a *nix port I think I might be able to
    have some hope of pulling something off. As for gui, I don't really
    care if it has one if it makes it easier to get over to the *nix's.
    Daemons have always worked fine for me.. But if there's planning
    in the works, I'd say whatever is most cross platform. I'm
    certainly not the right person to make that decision. Maybe a
    quick and dirty daemon first for linux and osx, then we can worry
    about the fancy stuff.

     
  • Sean Straus

    Sean Straus - 2003-12-08

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    Took a look but can't figure out much of what's going on due to my
    lack of Win32 experience. Answer this thread if there's any
    developments on a Linux version, and I'll take another look then..

     

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