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Comment on PackRat no longer updated by Garen Torikian

Garen Torikian — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:50:59 +0000

Right, I’m talking about moving beyond JSR code though.

My “solution” for online access was to use Google Spreadsheets. Users can push their collection as a TSV file, which Google Spreadsheets then parses and presents. Not pretty, but works for backups.

I have no idea how Springpad implements their Android->Browser push system. But they focus more on notes and annotations–not entire collections…

Comment on PackRat no longer updated by unwesen

unwesen — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:35:25 +0000

Thank you!

I’ve got to decline your offer, though. The reasons for ceasing to update PackRat would apply to other Android apps as well, as long as they use open source JSR implementations. I don’t know if Shelves does right now, but would assume it will if features I’ve currently got under development for PackRat would be implemented in Shelves.

Comment on PackRat no longer updated by Garen Torikian

Garen Torikian — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:08:13 +0000

This is very disappointing.

As the developer of Shelves (the OTHER Android media collection app ) I was hoping that we could have a bit of a “feature race.” I’m sorry to see you go; I was inspired by you.

I have long considered open-sourcing my app as well, considering it is a fork off Romain Guy’s open-sourced app. Would you consider teaming up and working on a collaboration of that sort? Contact me (various methods are listed on my website) if you’re interested.

Comment on PackRat no longer updated by Minder

Minder — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 13:00:35 +0000

@unwesen: In your situation releasing the sources is the best option anyway:
1. You’re making profit only from the merchandise (I haven’t seen any ads in PackRat yet), so there is no point in staying closed-source. You can still benefit from merch after you go open.
2. If the community took over most of the coding, the feature count would hopefully skyrocket.
3. Remimplementing the code not to use Oracle’s stuff would probably be done by the community.
4. Being BDFL gives +5 to Charisma and +500 to Karma And you still decide what features/patches to implement.

And besides all of above: I wonder if oracle can sue you for anything if you live outside the US.

Comment on PackRat no longer updated by unwesen

unwesen — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:56:17 +0000

I have. I’ve also not yet come to a conclusion on this matter.

In all honesty, while I’ve made the announcement that I wouldn’t update PackRat, I’m still hoping things might change sufficiently that updates are worthwhile for me again. I’m certainly willing to wait a while to see what happens next.

Comment on PackRat no longer updated by Minder

Minder — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:17:27 +0000

Have you considered releasing the source code?

Comment on PackRat no longer updated by Erika

Erika — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:41:57 +0000

I’m so sorry to hear this.

Comment on PackRat 1.2.5 Released by unwesen

unwesen — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:18:57 +0000

Hey!

Odd that it’s not in the Market. I really don’t know what Google is doing with that, it should be. You can’t buy it there, though, because it’s free

But you can just head to here and download the appropriate .apk file if you have issues. If you want to be notified of releases as if you had the Market installed, I’d recommend AndAppStore where PackRat is also published.

Hope that helps!
Jens

Comment on PackRat 1.2.5 Released by david

david — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:00:09 +0000

Want to buy this in canada but its not in the google market. Trying to use and old version from your site but lots of crashes after searches. Great app though, how can I buy it?

Comment on PackRat 1.2.5 Released by unwesen

unwesen — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:07:11 +0000

Hey! It’d be great to know what your issue is — if I can reproduce it, then I might be able to fix it.

PackRat does run in the background, but keep in mind that it doesn’t actually do much there. I’ve explained why it runs in the background here, starting with the fourth paragraph from the bottom.

As for Froyo… I really don’t know why it doesn’t show up. There’s nothing I’ve put in the app that would prevent PackRat from showing up on Froyo, and a growing percentage of PackRat users runs Froyo. But there’s a list of .apk files of all previous releases here.

Hope that helps!