Re: [Opensync-devel] Getting things back on track

[Martin O. <doc...@gm...>]

Hey Paul,

Perhaps the problem is that the opensync project has attempted to solve
too many problems in the same framework?

 * Data Access
 * Data Formating
 * Synchronisation Logic

It would have probably have been a better idea if each of those problems
had been solved separately but in ways that made them core components to
the operating systems and perhaps in ways that made their extension
trivial.

Ubuntu still does not ship with any synchronisation functionality
because compounding all problems into one project has made the entire
thing a huge non-trivial problem.

But perhaps it's too late now, I'm resined to the fact that I will never
have good sync support and that every front end app will have poorly
written data access, formating and syncing and the OS will never have
anything definitive.

Why are we trying to solve these problems? was it wise to write
something that needed to be rewritten several times, whilst supporting
obsolete versions and fracturing development effort and sapping the will
of extension developers?

I question the choices made in this project.

Martin