Monthly Archive for February, 2010

forked-daapd: Remote support, more to come

A few weeks ago, I’ve added support for Remote, Apple’s iPhone application for controlling iTunes remotely. Here, “support” means Remote can be paired with forked-daapd and can be used to browse the library. And that’s it, for now.

At this point, there won’t be much visible activity on forked-daapd for some time. I’m working on a couple of things, but they take time and they require a lot of new code.

So, for a couple weeks now, I’ve been working on that. I have some code outside forked-daapd that is starting to work well, but it’s not there yet, far from it. Then it’ll have to be integrated into forked-daapd, which means a lot of new code there too.

Bug fixes will still happen in the meantime, and some smaller new features may also appear before the Big Thing™. So if you find or encounter bugs, feel free to report them still. If you have patches or ideas you want to discuss, feel free too.

As I wrote to a couple people by mail already, good things come to those who wait or contribute.

With all that, I’ve updated the Debian packages, given that there won’t be important changes for a while; I hope they’re useful to some of you out there. Note that I’m making an amd64 binary package available alongside the source package; it’s built on a current Debian unstable system, but if that’s not suitable for you, in terms of dependencies or architecture, you can trivially build a suitable binary package from the source package. As a reminder, I have packages of the ANTLRv3 C runtime too. I’ve also added antlr-3.1.3.jar there, in case you need it and can’t find it at the upstream download site.

Ten years

Ten years ago, pretty much to the day, I was installing my first Debian system, a frozen Potato, using a release-candidate version of the boot-floppies. A few days later, I was reading the Policy, New Maintainer’s Guide and Developer’s Reference while building my first package.

It’s been a fun ten years, with ups and downs, and I’m looking forward to what’s coming next.