Re: [Bitpim-devel] Phonebook/Calendar sync w/external programs?

[Chris C. <cle...@oc...>]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Roger Binns wrote:

> > I haven't seen any hints of beginnings of
> > code in bitpim to deal with this.
> 
> Look harder :-)  There is a module named importexport almost
> 500 lines long and a whole bunch of code in phonebook.py!
> 
> The intention is for 0.7 to have the ability to import.  (This isn't
> the same thing as synchronization, but is an important first step).
> 
> If anyone actually wants to design synchronization then that would
> be a good idea.  The actual process would have to recognising changes
> in various data sources and applying them to others.  Overall trivial
> big picture but really difficult when you get down to nuts and bolts.
> It is also an absolute prerequisite that it isn't stupid.  I would
> rather not have the feature at all, than have one that magically 
> duplicates data.

Absolutely.  There are lots of existing sync programs "out there"; would it 
make sense to try to leverage some of their algorithms, or structure the 
storage format that bitpim uses such that they could be more easily 
leveraged?   I'm thinking particularly of something like 'rsync'...


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