[Tuxpaint-devel] iOS port withdrawn

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

Someone on Tumblr noticed that the Apple iOS port of Tux Paint (which
was last updated about 2.5yr ago, last I checked, and was generally
based on Tux Paint 0.9.22, which is now 9 years old) is no longer
showing in the App Store.

I reached out to Mark @ HappyMobile to ask what's up.  In the meantime,
I reminded him that we'd love to get iOS support baked into the upstream
code, and that we've made a ton of new features & enhancements since
0.9.22, especially the port to SDL2 (h/t Pere, Terrence, & Jianwei).

Back in Dec. 2020, he dumped the full source behind his iOS port onto
GitHub, here: https://github.com/happymobilecq/paint -- the date
listed at the top of `src/tuxpaint.c` was April 16, 2014, and
`VER_VERSION` in `Makefile` is `0.9.22`, unsurprisingly.

Presumably, since his iOS port had a few revisions since then (most
recently being Feb. 2021, last I time checked; the App Store page has
gone dark), there might be other changes that didn't land in that
GitHub repo. :shrug:

I'm guessing, with the sea changes in Tux Paint over the past 9 years,
_especially_ the transition from SDL1.2 to SDL2, I'm _guessing_ that
code wouldn't be particularly useful.  But there you have it.

Anyway, I don't know what action to take at this time, other than
remove the iOS link from the main Download page (done), and removing
the link to the dead App Store page at itunes.apple.com (done),
and waiting to hear back from Mark @ HM.

-- 
-bill!
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