Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone

["J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 07:54:57PM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
>>> One nice thing about drawterm is it lets you export the iphone's
>>> interfaces to Plan 9 -- that could lead to much more interesting
>>
>> I doubt you'll be able to do that with the insane restrictions Apple puts on
>> officially-sanctioned apps. You'd have to work via the iPhone jailbreak to
>> expose anything other than a very small, sandboxed directory on the phone via
>> drawterm.
>>
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> That makes zero sense.  As per the VNC discussion, there's already
> precedent for exporting screen and interfaces.

No, it makes perfect sense, if you actually know that there are VNC
clients on the phone, but not servers. You should look these things up
before saying I'm talking nonsense. Apple is fanatical about
controlling access to resources on the phone, even from apps that run
on the phone. The result of writing drawterm with Apple's SDK will be
a very crippled vnc/ssh type client.

> That does leave room for apple to restrict access to camera, location,
> orientation, etc. -- but I see no reason why they would.

Because it's Apple.

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>         -eric
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