Re: [Opensync-devel] xml file with capabilities

[Henrik /K. <kaa...@us...>]

Daniel Gollub wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 October 2009 11:26:16 pm Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote:
>   
>> Just one follow-up question
>> The description.xml has much of the same info as the XXX_discover function.
>> Which is the preferred way of setting this? The xml file or the discover 
>> function?
>>
>>     
>
> Ah - i forgot to mention this.
>
> you need both.
>
> In the discover() function you set information like the software version and 
> stuff like that. OpenSync will later find the best fitting description file. 
> The description winner's "<Reference>" will then choosen as reference for the 
> capabilities file, which get used as the capabilities for this 
> plugin/member/device ...
>
> In your case this looks pretty complex ... but this would allow you to support 
> different version of mozilla-sync which might have different capabilities. 
> e.g. due to bugs, or new features or so ...
>
> The many reason is actually for more general plugins to support different 
> peers at the same time with compelelty different capabilities.
>
> Best Regards,
> Daniel
>
>   
Makes perfect sense! Thanks for the explanation!