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

[Norm D. <no...@dr...>]

Armin Bauer wrote:

>Norm Dressler wrote:
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>>Armin Bauer wrote:
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>>>Hi Norm,
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>>>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
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>>>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.
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>>>Armin
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>I did try the evo2 to syncML and it didn't work out too good -- besides,
>>I would prefer to use Sunbird/Thunderbird, etc.
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>>I'm open and willing to try and help.
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>Thats always good :)
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>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.
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>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.
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>Any help would be welcome of course! :)
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>Armin
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>>Norm
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Well, let me take a peek at the sunbird plugin in Multisync 0.82 and see 
what it's all about.  It wasn't a part of the cvs snapshot in the link 
you sent me.  Is it somewhere else possibly?

Norm