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

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

Norm Dressler wrote:
> Armin Bauer wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>>   
> 
> 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?

I checked it out from developers cvs at sf.net. But it is completely
empty. Guess thats the reason why it is not in the snapshot :)

> 
> Norm