Re: About newer iOS and devices

Interesting conversation here. See my thoughts in line:

On 28/10/13 12:25, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 16:37:38 -0200, Henrique Cesar Ulbrich wrote:
>> I guess I failed to explain. Language barrier, you know. English is not one
>> of my strongest skills. Let's try again:
>>
>> Of course, it's not supported. But there must be a reason for not being
>> supported. For iOS 4 and up a new version of libgpod would have to be
>> written to make use of some kind of binary blob from Apple. My question is:
>>
>> 1. Did someone research or document those things? How deep did he/she go in
>> the matter? Is this documentation, if exists, archived somewhere?
>>
>> 2. If not, did this at least been discussed in the mailing lists? Did
>> someone find something that could be a starting point?
>
> I guess frequent changes in new iOS versions that would break libgpod
> are not a strong motivation to work on this. Apple sending lawyers to
> people who participate in reverse engineering the iTunesDB certainly
> doesn't help either.

I completely understand. Then, what do we need for libgpod to overcome 
these problems? Does Tor support hosting git repositories?

BTW, if libgpod doesn't support devices from version X of iOS, shouldn't 
libgpod emit an error (fail fast), so the consumers of the
library (media players) can tell the user about it, instead of fail 
miserably and make the user think that the media player is buggy?

Cheers


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