Re: [Opensync-devel] An OpenSync process ???

[Henrik /K. <he...@ka...>]

Daniel Gollub wrote:
> On Friday 23 October 2009 09:05:24 pm Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote:
>
> Please only write OpenSync application using the API.
>   
ACK.
>   
>> In a case like blueZync, it would be preferable if there was a running
>> instance of an osynctool-like process, which would accept messages on a
>> socket from blueZync to create a group, discover, sync, whatever.
>>     
>
> You mean something like a daemon?
>   
Yes!
> I also had this idea - but i'm not the person going to write that daemon. I 
> have enough responisbilities to complete the OpenSync API - which a daemon 
> could base on.
>
>   
ACK. But somebody else might write it...
>> This way blueZync - an extension to Mozilla Thunderbird - could be kept
>> a portable JavaScipt extension communicating with "the opensync process"
>> through sockets.
>> This way we would have no difficult-to-port C code in blueZync, and no
>> need for an end-user to install anything but a native OpenSync (with
>> this "new" process) and a platform-independent plugin to Thunderbird.
>>
>> Any comments on that?
>>
>> I am also thinking about dbus, but since I do not know the details of
>> dbus, I don't know if would be useful.
>> How about an OpenSync service on dbus ???
>>     
> [...]
>
> Yeah, i would also use D-Bus for that - i started with a Proof of concept 
> several years ago. But again, i'm going to concentrate on the OpenSync API 
> first.
>
> http://opensync.org/browser/branches/MobileStation?rev=2233
>
> I'm fine with the idea people using a Sync-daemon or write a standalone Sync-
> application - as long as it's based on OpenSync API ;)
>   
ACK.

/Henrik