On 10 October, 2015 - Dirk Hohndel wrote: > > > On Oct 10, 2015, at 2:27 AM, Guido Lerch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > If you guys agree I submit this as my app, not use any ssrf code and just > > read from the cloud storage. > > > > V1 would only be dive details, no profile, hence this is reading some stuff > > and displaying. > > So I have talked to quite a few people about this and while the FSF seems to > have > come out that the iTunes store is incompatible with the GPL, there are quite > a few > apps in there that are GPL based and I found a couple that explained their > rationale > why they thought this was acceptable. > > My plan had been to get the Android app to a reasonable state and then bring > the discussion to the mailing list. I'm inclined to say that if "the vast > majority of > the contributors" agree that they can live with the FSF's objections (because > frankly, I find them rather silly), then we should add the necessary glue > layer > to port Subsurface-mobile to IOS. The nice thing about the way we are building > Subsurface-mobile (with a QML UI) is that in theory this should be fairly > simple. > > The big challenges would be the BT / FTDI download and features like that, > but the core of the app should port quite easily. >
A quick browse on http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtbluetooth-index.html , it says that iOS is supported, so the BT code "should" work. The ftdi code is probably a no-go, but we could probably live with that. > So if you would like to investigate that, I would suggest that route instead > of starting from scratch. > I think building a separate iOS app in parity with what we plan to support on android is a insurmountable task. //Anton -- Anton Lundin +46702-161604 _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
