[Bitpim-devel] Synchronization algorithms

[Somerlot, C. <CSo...@Br...>]

> 
> Thanks for the pointer to the ASPN article.  

This one? http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/pubs/sync-abstract.html

> 
> Has anyone found any good synchronization algorithms?
> 
> As far as I can tell, you have to keep or synthesize a 
> transaction log of changes, and apply them during synchronization.
> 
> Roger
> 

The paper listed above talks about synthesizing a record of changes (I
believe by comparing the new record with the old record) for each replica of
the record, then using some conflict resolution rules to combine them into 1
record of changes, which is then applied to all the replicas. 

This would seem to work well if Bitpim were to synthesize with both the
phone and outlook, mozilla, etc.