Re: [Libipod-devel] Development for libipod

[Kendall D. <ken...@li...>]

Hi Jim,

Welcome to the team! I go by "binaryloop" on the SF site and I just 
added you to the project and made you a developer. Source Forge is 
pretty easy to use. The other guy on the project: morpher59 (Duane) is 
the real brains behind the operation. He wrote all the code. I am 
helping out with management of the web site, promotion, documentation, 
etc... One thing to do (if you haven't already) is to download a copy of 
the source code and check the program out. If you have an iPod you 
should be able to mount and unmount the device, add files, remove files, 
etc...  So, check out the code and see how it works.

Right now we are just getting the mailing list started and there only 3 
of us here right now. The long term goal is to try to create coding 
examples and documentations so that people can take advantage of libipod 
in their own projects. We'd love to see other music players (especially 
for Linux) start to take advantage of libipod. Imagine having the iPod 
functionality in AmaroK being controlled by libipod. Just about any 
other program that should connect to an iPod but currently doesn't can 
take advantage of the libipod code.  The code for libipod is written in 
C to be small, fast, and universal but there are bindings for C++ and 
Python. So, developers in these languages can use libipod quite easily. 
We are also trying to help spread the news about the libipod site and 
sign up developers.

Are you currently working on software that needs iPod connectivity?

Kendall



j h wrote:

> Hey everyone!
> My name is Jim and I am a student at the University of Toronto 
> (Canada). I just finished reading the description of this project and 
> it sounds very interesting. I have some development experience in C, 
> Python, and C++ and was thinking that it would be cool to contribute 
> to a project like this. I'de be willing to do whatever I am capable of 
> to assist this project, so if you want my help just contact me at 
> Can...@ho... or my Source Forge e-mail (my username on 
> Source Forge is jim2k6). I am kinda new to Source Forge so just let me 
> know what I have to do in order to "register" with the project if you 
> want me to join.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim H.
>