Re: [Opensync-devel] Discussion: syncml plugin with synthesis

[Chris F. <cd...@fo...>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 04:27:02PM +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> This advantage also has a significant downside: the rest of OpenSync has
> no idea about the DevInf of the SyncML peer and thus cannot take that
> into account when reading or writing the local database. It is also not
> possible to provide the capabilities of the local side to the Synthesis
> engine because there is not one single peer locally (group concept of
> OpenSync).
> 
> As a result, data will get lost when doing round-trip syncs.

I'm not a SyncML expert, so I'm not familiar what this "DevInf" information
will be, nor why we would lose it, nor why it might be important. :-(

Can you give me an example of what might be missing?

Thanks,
- Chris