Maintaining a fork for modern macOS

[NattyNarwhal]

Hi @nark,

I've been using Navidrome (a Subsonic compatible server) for music more recently, but I wanted a native experience on my Mac. Submariner almost fit the ticket, it was very old, and understandably, you didn't have the time to maintain it (It was still pretty nice!). As such, I've been (trying to, at least - I've been learning AppKit and Objective-C along the way) maintaining a fork of Submariner here.

I've done quite a bit of work to refactor it (shaving thousands LoC), modernizing its dependencies (like moving towards NSURLSession and replacing QuickTime with AVFoundation), and adapting the UI for modern Mac UI conventions (which sometimes saved a lot of code in places where it was reinventing the wheel before). It's still a bit rough, but it's usable enough it works fairly well. It looks like this now:

I'm wondering what you wish for this. Do you want this in your upstream repo and r-w.fr and such involved? Or would you rather I maintain it in a separate repo/site (with acknowledgement, of course)?

[nark]

Hi @NattyNarwhal

Looks like good work you've done, I'm very happy to see this project continues to serve someone(s) else! Honestly, I do not have any time nor direct interest in Subsonic/Submariner right now (although the adventure was exciting at the time) so the best is probably to maintain your own fork.

I'm still interested in testing this new version, is there a binary available somewhere?

All I ask is to be credited as the original creator in license and About menu. Is that OK for you?
Let me know when everything is in place on your side and we will see what to do with the original website (taking it down, update or redirect to your own place if any).

Many thank for letting me know about your work.
And again, bravo for not letting Submariner die prematurely.

Best regards

[NattyNarwhal]

Sorry for the late reply, fun work stuff + new toy came in recently, so got distracted.

Honestly, I do not have any time nor direct interest in Subsonic/Submariner right now (although the adventure was exciting at the time) so the best is probably to maintain your own fork.

Alright then. I'll continue developing in my fork on GH for now.

I'm still interested in testing this new version, is there a binary available somewhere?

I'll try to get a binary out soon. Right now I've been distracted by the ARC conversion (amongst other issues).

All I ask is to be credited as the original creator in license and About menu. Is that OK for you?

Of course!

Let me know when everything is in place on your side and we will see what to do with the original website (taking it down, update or redirect to your own place if any).

Sure. I haven't got anything up or planned website wise, but it's something I'll probably end up working on as it continues development.

[NattyNarwhal]

I'm building binaries now for each push: i.e. this one. I'll figure out some better way later (since it doesn't sign and that's very awful no good), but for now, it does provide CI.

[NattyNarwhal]

FWIW, I'm still working on this. I bothered registering a domain for it, and I'm trying to do some stuff for a stable and user-friendly release (mostly fixing up bugs and other polish). Changing the bundle ID is something I might do, but if you want, you could set up redirects from the old locations, since those AFAIK don't have anything assigned but still have things linked.

For distribution, I'll put the .app on the website and/or GitHub releases once it's ready. (There are also at least, as previously mentioned, the unsigned builds from CI for bleeding-edge.) I'm also thinking of putting it up on the Mac App Store, since I did the prerequisites to get that to work, and it'd enable things like nice automatic updates and other things I have ideas about.