Would it be possible to compile Syncterm for IPadOS? That would be so cool.

$ The Millionaire $

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Re: Syncterm
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Tue Aug 11 2020 05:45 am

Would it be possible to compile Syncterm for IPadOS? That would be so cool.

I think it would take a lot more than just a recompile. There would have to be iOS-specific things added, at least.

And I think it's just iOS, not iPadOS.

Nightfox

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And I think it's just iOS, not iPadOS.

Actually I think iPadOS is its own thing now. But I haven't done any apple
dev work so who knows.

I do like BBSing on my iPad, for what it's worth...I've been using htmlterm
on my BBS website to connect via wss. It works really well, I'm a big fan.

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Re: Re: Syncterm
By: ryan to Nightfox on Tue Aug 11 2020 11:37 am

And I think it's just iOS, not iPadOS.

Actually I think iPadOS is its own thing now. But I haven't done any apple dev work so who knows.

Ah, I didn't know.. But I thought they were trying to consolidate things so they didn't have so many different operating systems/platforms to support.

I do like BBSing on my iPad, for what it's worth...I've been using htmlterm on my BBS website to connect via wss. It works really well, I'm a big fan.

I've done some BBSing on mobile devices, but I like having a real keyboard to type on. I suppose if you had a bluetooth keyboard for a tablet, that could work okay.

Nightfox

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Re: Syncterm
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Tue Aug 11 2020 05:45 am

I think it would take a lot more than just a recompile. There would have to be iOS-specific things added, at least.

And I think it's just iOS, not iPadOS.

Nightfox

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This was taken from my iPad:

iPad 13.6
Your software is up to date.

$ The Millionaire $

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iPadOS 13.6
$ The Millionaire $

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Actually I think iPadOS is its own thing now. But I haven't done any apple dev work so who knows.

I do like BBSing on my iPad, for what it's worth...I've been using htmlterm on my BBS website to connect via wss. It works really well, I'm a big fan.

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Here’s proof here:

https://www.apple.com/ca/ipados/?afid=p238%7CsTd7xmhQy-dc_mtid_20925xgt40346_pc rid_454540443551_pgrid_105004444686&cid=wwa-ca-kwgo-ipad-slid---iPadOS-Evergree n

$ The Millionaire $

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On 08-11-20 08:30, Nightfox wrote to The Millionaire <=-

And I think it's just iOS, not iPadOS.

The newer iPads do run iPadOS. There is such a thing.


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Re: Re: Syncterm
By: Tony Langdon to Nightfox on Wed Aug 12 2020 06:47 pm

And I think it's just iOS, not iPadOS.

The newer iPads do run iPadOS. There is such a thing.

I see. I didn't know.

Nightfox

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Re: Syncterm
By: The Millionaire to Nightfox on Tue Aug 11 2020 01:20 pm

iPadOS 13.6

I see. I didn't know they were calling it iPadOS.

Nightfox

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On 08-12-20 08:49, Nightfox wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

The newer iPads do run iPadOS. There is such a thing.

I see. I didn't know.

Yeah, only came out in the last year or so, IIRC.


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Re: Syncterm
By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Tue Aug 11 2020 05:45 am

Would it be possible to compile Syncterm for IPadOS? That would be so cool.

Are you going to pony up the $99 a year that Apple charges in order to get SyncTERM listed in the Apple store? Otherwise you'll only be able to side-load it on a jailbroken device.

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Re: Syncterm
By: DaiTengu to The Millionaire on Fri Aug 14 2020 02:53 pm

Are you going to pony up the $99 a year that Apple charges in order to get SyncTERM listed in the Apple store? Otherwise you'll only be able to side-load it on a jailbroken device.

I haven't published an iOS app, but I had the impression that the $99 fee was a one-time fee to get it listed. But developers have to pay $99 every year to have the app listed?

Nightfox

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Re: Syncterm
By: Nightfox to DaiTengu on Fri Aug 14 2020 01:24 pm

I haven't published an iOS app, but I had the impression that the $99 fee was a one-time fee to get it listed. But developers have to pay $99 every year to have the app listed?

I think it's $99 per year to remain an active "apple developer" I don't think you can push updates to your app without it.

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Re: Syncterm
By: Nightfox to DaiTengu on Fri Aug 14 2020 01:24 pm

I haven't published an iOS app, but I had the impression that the $99 fee was a one-time fee to get it listed. But developers have to pay $99 every year to have the app listed?

Somewhere in between. That's about what it costs to keep an active developer account with Apple.... That's right, kids, Apple charges the devs to develop for their platform. I mean, I guess technically Google does for the play store too, but last I checked that was only a $20 one time charge to register, and there's alternatives to the play store for android distribution.
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Re: Syncterm
By: DaiTengu to Nightfox on Fri Aug 14 2020 05:04 pm

I haven't published an iOS app, but I had the impression that the
$99 fee was a one-time fee to get it listed. But developers have to
pay $99 every year to have the app listed?

I think it's $99 per year to remain an active "apple developer" I don't think you can push updates to your app without it.

I suppose $99 per year isn't too bad if you make a lot of apps and make money on them. But for someone who is a casual developer who wants to develop an iOS app at home as sort of a hobby, it could be a bit discouraging to have to pay $99 per year to have their app in the app store, especially if they want their app to be free and also ad-free.

In the late 80s and early 90s, or around there, I remember some software development tools being quite expensive. Then, Borland came out with some very good software development tools for DOS PCs that were fairly inexpensive. I think Microsoft caught on, because Microsoft made their Visual Studio fairly inexpensive for a while if you just wanted an individual language like Visual C++ or Visual Basic. I think Microsoft realized if they wanted a good software base for Windows for people to use, they needed to make the barrier to entry for software development fairly easy, which meant inexpensive software development tools. I think that helped with allowing a large selection of software for Windows to become available, thus helping Windows become more popular.

However, some might also argue that there is also a lot of 'junk' software out there, and software with ads, malware, etc.. I suppose it can help to have a middle ground somewhere to help ensure a selection of quality software.

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Re: Syncterm
By: Nightfox to DaiTengu on Fri Aug 14 2020 04:09 pm

However, some might also argue that there is also a lot of 'junk' software out there, and software with ads, malware, etc.. I suppose it can help to have a middle ground somewhere to help ensure a selection of quality software.
Nightfox

Hmm, if only someone came up with a system where development tools were freely available, but there was some kind of central repository of some sort to install software from that served as a level of validation to keep the crap out. And if only this mystical environment could not only exist, but have some kind of easy to use command line to install software directly from these repositories.... if only. ;D
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Re: Syncterm
By: Underminer to Nightfox on Fri Aug 14 2020 06:02 pm

However, some might also argue that there is also a lot of 'junk'
software out there, and software with ads, malware, etc.. I suppose
it can help to have a middle ground somewhere to help ensure a
selection of quality software.

Hmm, if only someone came up with a system where development tools were freely available, but there was some kind of central repository of some sort to install software from that served as a level of validation to keep the crap out. And if only this mystical environment could not only exist, but have some kind of easy to use command line to install software directly from these repositories.... if only. ;D

I suppose you're talking about Linux distros.. :P One thing I've found with that though, is that software in a distro's repository isn't always the most up to date. To get the latest version of something, sometimes you can add an additional source to your repository list and install it from there, but that's basically like going to a web site to download the software, so you're back at square 1.. I don't think the software repositories really make it a whole lot easier to install software, it's just a different source. I think it could be just as easy to look it up on the web, download a package from the web, and use a command (or GUI app if you prefer) to install the package. And if you already know the company or web site to get it from, then you can go right there. It's easy to go to the package manager and look it up there too - I just don't think a package manager makes it significantly easier, it's just a convenient place to look for software.

Nightfox

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Re: Syncterm
By: Nightfox to Underminer on Fri Aug 14 2020 06:32 pm

I suppose you're talking about Linux distros.. :P One thing I've found with that though, is that software in a distro's repository isn't always the most up to date. To get the latest version of something, sometimes you the package manager and look it up there too - I just don't think a package manager makes it significantly easier, it's just a convenient place to look for software.

If you're talking about any single piece of software, and only the installation of the same, then a repository might not be significantly easier/better. When it comes to managing dependencies, updates, a system as a whole, and not having to necessarily vet each installation source - a repo is orders of magnitude easier to deal with. And in terms of whether a repo is the most up to date version of something - that tends to mainly come down to whether you have a rolling or release based distro. If you have the first, repos are generally up to date, if you have the latter it's usually the case of it having whatever version has been validated to work with all the other library versions in that repo.

Decently maintained repos absolutely do the things we were talking about needing ;)
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Are you going to pony up the $99 a year that Apple charges in order to get SyncTERM listed in the Apple store? Otherwise you'll only be able
to side-load

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On 8/14/2020 1:24 PM, Nightfox wrote:

Re: Syncterm
By: DaiTengu to The Millionaire on Fri Aug 14 2020 02:53 pm

Da> Are you going to pony up the $99 a year that Apple charges in order to get
Da> SyncTERM listed in the Apple store? Otherwise you'll only be able to
Da> side-load it on a jailbroken device.

I haven't published an iOS app, but I had the impression that the $99 fee was a one-time fee to get it listed. But developers have to pay $99 every year to have the app listed?

Yes... Keep thinking that websockets + wasm builds may be a good
migration strategy for BBSes... would allow for multi-bbs hosting on a
single IP as well as not needing an installed client.

No idea how hard it would be to pull the rendering engine out of
synchronet with a wasm build target for integrating into a websocket
client though, it's been something on the back of my mind, and would
probably be best with an lgpl adjustment to the license for the built webassebly.

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On 8/14/2020 10:04 PM, Underminer wrote:

Decently maintained repos absolutely do the things we were talking about needing ;)

For end-user desktop software flatpak+flathub is a decent option for
most things. Though there's also snap and appimage. Of course if you
want auto-updates they still fall a little short depending on your setup.

MS has introduced their own (winget) based on a prominent open-source
one (AppGet), there's also chocolatey, which is what I've mostly used
and stuck to.

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