Re: [Opensync-devel] [RFC] Using OSYNC_START_TYPE_EXTERNAL

[Daniel G. <go...@b1...>]

On Sunday 25 October 2009 10:59:55 pm Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote:
> We could add a function called osync_plugin_set_start_external_command 
> in opensync_plugin to be called from get_sync_info:

Ok, thats pretty cool! This is defenitly missing in OpenSync.

> 
> This function could be passed a string in printf format (e.g. 
> "start-external-process %s"), and osync_client_proxy_spawn could call 
> g_strdup_printf with the pipe name as an argument, and execute the 
> resulting command with g_spawn_command_line_async.
> 
> I do not know about other external processes, but with blueZync plugin 
> installed, if you launch "thunderbird --mozilla-sync=/path/to/pipe" it 
> will create a new thunderbird instance if one is not already running, 
> otherwise it will connect to the running thunderbird, which is exactly 
> what we need.
> 
> Comments on this would be most appreciated.

Checked your patch (different thread), looks pretty promosing!

Best Regards,
Daniel

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