[Opensync-users] Re: Which plugins to help with (was CVS Access)

[Armin B. <arm...@de...>]

Norm Dressler wrote:
> Armin Bauer wrote:
> 
>> Hi Norm,
>>
>> since the sourceforge cvs was very unstable, i provided snapshots of the
>> code. So you can download multisync (and the gnokii plugin) from
>> http://www.multisync.org/downloads.php?do=dl&id=3
>>
>> Do you wish to port the plugin to opensync? If you do, it might be a
>> good idea to upload it directly to opensync's repository so other people
>> can help with the development.
>>
>> Armin
>>
>>  
>>
> Well, I'm having enough grief with getting any good syncronization
> working that I'm thinking of investigating whether I should write an
> Obex based plugin.  This would work over bluetooth and presumably with
> any Nokia Symbian phone.
> 
> Would this be needed by others or should I really look at sticking with
> SyncML and help with the Sunbird/Mozilla plugin?  The SyncML plugin
> assumes you have a TCP/IP connection to your system -- but I know my
> phone can also do SyncML over Bluetooth directly.  I don't think that is
> supported right now right?
> 
> I did try the evo2 to syncML and it didn't work out too good -- besides,
> I would prefer to use Sunbird/Thunderbird, etc.
> 
> I'm open and willing to try and help.
> 

Thats always good :)

The situation is like this:
I currently have syncml capable phone here (though only syncml over
http) so syncml should work soon. Syncml over obex is not too hard to
implement, i already abstracted the transport mechanisms in libsyncml,
so you just need to add the obex transport to libsyncml/transports. I
also already added a skeleton for obex and the necessary configure checks.

sunbird/thunderbird/mozilla would be really nice to have (i use them
myself). The problem is that afaik they can only be synchronized from
the own processes so we are going to need some sort of IPC for them.
Other plugins need the ipc as well so i plan to implement a generic and
transparent ipc for the plugins. I already have the design how this is
going to work. Its just going to be a lot of work actually implementing it.

Any help would be welcome of course! :)

Armin

> Norm