Re: [Gtkpod-devel] web site home page error

[Jack <ost...@us...>]

On 2020.07.05 10:25, Jonas Kvinge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I still use libgpod with Strawberry Music Player, which is a fork of
> Clementine. https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry
> 
> I got 2 working iPod Classics that work with the library. I think one  
> is
> a 5th gen and one is a 6th gen. The 6th gen is almost unused as I  
> found
> I could not use RockBox on it at the time, so I mostly used the 5th  
> gen
> to be able to play FLAC.
> 
> I'm willing to help keeping the library and gtkpod alive. It would be  
> a
> shame if the library and gtkpod was dropped from distros.
> 
> Firstly we should fix the webpages. http://www.gtkpod.org/libgpod/ is  
> up
> but has a lot of broken links, I think it has been like that for  
> years.
> I'm willing to do it we someone could can get the contact details of  
> the
> owner.
An email to the web host (found from whois) could also be a first step.
> 
> I suggest moving the git repositories to GitHub which has a larger
> community, it would be easier to get contributions that way. I can  
> help
> with the transition. I can also help making sure it still compiles and
> works so it doesn't get dropped, occasionally making a bug fix  
> release.
As I understand, simply cloning to github shouldn't be a problem.   I  
wonder if there is a way to also bring along the open issues (or at  
least those determined to still be relevant.

I'm happy to help instigate the change, but I certainly am not capable  
of becoming a core developer.

In the very short run, however, I'd love to see a fix for compiling  
with -fno-common (now the gcc-10 default.)  I've tried, and the fix  
eludes me, but I'm certainly not a great C programmer.

A note to the Gentoo bug says Debian and Fedora still support gtkpod,  
but their fix for this is just to force -fcommon.  It's certainly a  
reasonable work-around, but I still don't think a real fix should be  
very difficult.
> 
> My username on sourceforge is jonasio, my username on GitHub and  
> GitLab
> is jonaski.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> Jonas Kvinge
> https://github.com/jonaski
> 
> On 04.07.2020 09:57, Paul Richardson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The original leader on the project was a German, Jorg Schuler. Given
> > the whois info shows .de name servers I think he is still probably  
> the
> > owner.
> >
> > I took over gtkpod for a while and updated the UI but haven't used  
> it
> > let alone compiled it in years. My iPod is long since dead - I've
> > moved on.
> >
> > Realistically, iPods/iPhones moved on too. We spent a couple of  
> years
> > playing cat n mouse with Apple. In the end, they just locked out
> > access to the iPhone/iPod db so only iPods up to the Classic  
> (roughly)
> > worked with libgpod and gtkpod. This hastened gtkpod's decline in
> > interest.
> >
> > If you or anyonelse wishes to take over then happy to help with any
> > transition. However, can't do much about the domain.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On 4 July 2020 00:38:03 BST, Jack via Gtkpod-devel
> > <gtk...@li...> wrote:
> >
> >     On 2020.05.13 11:23, Jack via Gtkpod-devel wrote:
> >
> >         http://www.gtkpod.org gives Database error A database query
> >         syntax error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the
> >         software. The last attempted database query was: (SQL query
> >         hidden) from within function "Job::pop". MySQL returned  
> error
> >         "1146: Table 'DB21816.gp_job' doesn't exist (80.81.241.56)".
> >         If that's an IP address, I wonder if this is because the
> >         site's IP address changed "recently" Separately,
> >         https://www.gtkpod.org returns only an empty page (content  
> is
> >         "<br><br><br><H1><center></center></H1>") so I don't know if
> >         that's a configuration issue or simply a lack of  
> certificate.
> >         Jack
> >
> >
> >     Does anyone know who owns the gtkpod.org domain?  It looks like  
> it was
> >     renewed in May, so it's not abandoned.  If someone doesn't fix  
> the
> >     database error, it seem likely that Gentoo will drop the  
> package.  I've
> >     been unsuccessfully trying to get it to compile with gcc-10,  
> which is
> >     another issue that will affect an increasing number of distros.
> >
> >     Jack
> >      
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