Re: [Opensync-users] Plugin for gnokii

[Matthew K. <m_...@fa...>]

Glad you're on this list, Pawel! 

Glad people think this is a good idea. I'm fine with converting to XML
in the plugin, that should be very easy (especially in Python) , and
I'll look at the code David suggested for the API. 

Sadly, I've got exams at Imperial College, London over the next few
weeks so I'm unlikely to get started on it right away - if anyone else
is enthused, by all means go ahead and report to the list!

I had a thought about merging. Obviously it is a complete nightmare
trying to get the specific capabilities of each device, but perhaps
that's something that you could leave to the user, say by getting them
to configure the plugin via an XML file or the GUI as to which fields
their device can handle? For the Gnokii plugin, this problem is
simplified - the restriction is not so much the phones themselves as the
gnokii application, so you could provide the users for presets
(Gnokii-series 60, Gnokii-series 40 etc.). These could be updated on the
plugin side as Gnokii development progressed. This is one more advantage
of the server/client architecture rather than dealing with the phone
directly - you are given predictable output.

But, I can well imagine that it's a big coding job - good luck with the
SyncML plugin, I think that you Opensync developers are making something
really good. The decision to start something completely new and
ambitious (rather than sticking with Multisync 0.8x) is really starting
to pay off, I think.

Best wishes,
Matt
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