Rockbox Center

Why not contribute directly?

Asked by Paul Louden

The Rockbox project already has a tool, "RBUtil," with both GUI and CLI versions for use in installing bootloaders and builds on multiple targets, as well as some basic management functions (installing themes, fonts, and extras so far).

Why not contribute to the project itself, as it's part of the core "Rockbox" project and the official install tool?

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Ubuntuxer (johannes-schw) said : 		#1

I think your question is an important qualified question, so in the following paragraph I will attempt to answer it:

We know the official tool Rockbox Utility, but we would like to program a new program, which is written in Python, because we are not so familiar with C. The decided advantage of Python is that we can use OOP, so we can realisize new functions easier and faster than Rockbox Utility. Rockbox Center doesn't just install Rockbox and the Rockbox Extras, it supports a data transfer to your player and convert your files into the right rockbox format, so it has a different approach against RBUtil. Besides we can support unofficial custom builds, which are not supported from Rockbox.

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