PilotManager is an extensible perl-tk-based tool for synchronizing databases on a PalmOS-based PDA with a Unix desktop. Written by Bharat Mediratta (and later, Alan Harder) of Sun, it has been in use by the Unix/Linux/BSD communities for years.
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Changes from v1.108 to v1.109 * Conduits included in the PilotManager distribution now have version numbers identical to the PilotManager version. Third-party conduits can (and should) continue to have their own version number schemes. * Change the way we reference constants exported from libpisock, in preparation for pilot-link 0.12.0-pre5. Backwards compatibility is maintained. Use symbolic constants instead of hard-coded integer values, if running with a version of pilot-link that provides them. * A second attempt to fix the bug in the Properties dialog with Tk-804. The first one didn't work with certain combinations of libraries. * Fix bug introduced in 1.108 that broke -syncwith and -install for normally inactive conduits. * Don't call conduitQuit on conduits that haven't been loaded. Eliminates an error message when using -syncwith (bug introduced in 1.108). * Fix bug where PilotManager would report a successful connection and then a Perl error, when what really happened was simply a timeout. * Eliminated numerous -w warnings * PilotSync.pm (affects SyncAB, SyncFood, and some third-party conduits; all changes by Ralf Schlatterbeck): fix some crash bugs and a bug that caused creation of empty fields; add support for full sync; some new functionality for use by conduit authors: possibility to skip some pilot records, and to generate local ID based on contents of pilot record. * SyncMemo conduit: work around a bug in perl 5.8.0 that was causing the filename filters not to work sometimes. The workaround involves forcing these filters to be ASCII-only; this could conceivably be a problem for people using non-ASCII filenames. Fix bug that caused spurious conflict to be detected when doing full sync and a file had changed but the corresponding pilot memo had not. Eliminate some barewords to avoid strict subs warnings in some versions of perl (bug report from Ralf Schlatterbeck). * SyncCM conduit: Work around libcsa bug that was causing "INVALID DATE TIME" error when syncing "all dates" in a timezone east of GMT; workaround for dtcm bug that made weekly repeating appointments created on the pilot uneditable in dtcm; fix up repeating appointments from the pilot whose start date isn't one of the repeat days. The following patches from Alan Harder: if cm appointment has no end time, use end time equal to start time on pilot (rather than refusing to sync the appointment); clearer and more informative log messages; when doing "Sync All (dates)", use 2021 instead of 2010 as the end of the range; propagate appointment deletion from palm to desktop even if the archive flag is set. * Installer conduit: Respect -rcdir argument when running installer from command line (Alan Harder) * Backup conduit: add an option "Ignore modify date (backup every time)"; more informative log messages. (Both by Alan Harder.) For deciding whether to back up a database, use a different scheme that doesn't depend on the two clocks being synchronized. * SyncTime conduit: remove workaround for some ancient pilot-link version (Alan Harder). * SyncFood conduit: Refuse to sync if $FOODFILE has been deleted, in order to avoid wiping everything out. Patch from Alan Harder, I haven't tested it. * SyncAB conduit: fix bug in setting vCard file name, and in handling of newlines (Alan Harder). Implement full sync, allowing sync with multiple desktop machines (Ralf Schlatterbeck). Allow filtering by private flag and by category (Ralf Schlatterbeck). * SyncPlan conduit: Appointments that repeat more than one day a week, every n weeks, where n > 1, are possible on the pilot but not in plan. Signal them as unsyncable, rather than converting them to once-per-week repeats (Thomas DeWeese). Show progress bar while reading Pilot records. Re-fix bug about plan alarms getting turned off that was supposed to be fixed in 1.108 but really wasn't. Fix some bugs related to time zone conversion: end date of repeating appointments would move back a day when synced from pilot to plan in time zones east of GMT, and appointment times shown in the log window would be in GMT rather than local time. * SendMail conduit: fix bug that comes up when the database doesn't exist on the pilot. * Remove contrib/dinesh-dutt, which was an old version of software that was later distributed on its own (the syncbbdb project on sourceforge, not to be confused with syncbbdb2, which is an unrelated project and is the one I recommend for bbdb syncing).
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