opensync-users

[Opensync-users] OpenSync release 0.19

[Daniel G. <dg...@su...>]

Hi everyone,

I'm happy to announce the general availability of OpenSync 0.19, after=20
many, many changes and 11 month of intense development.

These are the highlights of this release:
o IPC, which enables OpenSync to run each plugin as a separate
  process
o added a VCalendar converter
o improved the ICalendar converter
o simplified filtering off object types (e.g. disable syncing of memos)
o 4 additional plugins, boosting the number of plugins up to 14
o Support for a wide range of applications and devices.

The OpenSync project is eagerly seeking for contributors. If you are=20
interested in testing plugins, writing new code, fixing bugs, creating=20
tutorials, improving documentation, join our IRC channel #opensync on=20
irc.freenode.org or subscribe to the OpenSync -users and/or -devel=20
mailing list:

	https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensync-users
	https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensync-devel

OpenSync is still in early stages of development. Please don't sync=20
without a _full backup_ and only sync if you are able to restore from=20
your backup! Please follow the plugin's README prior to using a plugin!

OpenSync 0.19 and most of it's appendant plugins have been packaged with=20
the openSUSE Build Service and are available for Mandriva 2006, Fedora=20
Core 5, SUSE Linux 10.0 and 10.1 at:

http://software.opensuse.org/download/OpenSync/

Debian and Ubuntu packages are being provided by Matthias Jahn at:

http://www.in.fh-merseburg.de/~jahn/opensync/

Source Tarballs:
http://www.opensync.org/wiki/download

The 0.20 release will be a bug fixing release and is hopefully following=20
in a few weeks. Armin will soon be releasing a testing release of the=20
devel branch, which includes brand-new core features, such as improved=20
filtering (enabling/disabling) of object types, improved performance of=20
syncing, no more memory leaks, a reworked schema of the internal XML=20
format and so one. Stay tuned!

Many thanks to everyone who helped getting this release out the door,=20
especially (sorted alphabetically):

Andrew Baumann,
Christopher Stender,
Daniel Friedrich,
Eduardo Pereira Habkost,
Markus Meyer,
Matthias Jahn,

and everyone in #opensync on freenode,
all on the OpenSync users and development mailing list,
the openSUSE Build Service team @ Novell

And last, but not least, a big thankyou to Armin for his great work on=20
OpenSync!

Have fun!
Daniel

Re: [Opensync-users] OpenSync release 0.19

[Giuseppe C. <Giu...@en...>]

Thank you very much for the new relase,

Daniel Gollub wrote:
> 
> OpenSync 0.19 and most of it's appendant plugins have been packaged with 
> the openSUSE Build Service and are available for Mandriva 2006, Fedora 
> Core 5, SUSE Linux 10.0 and 10.1 at:
> 
> http://software.opensuse.org/download/OpenSync/
> 

Unfortunately not all FC5 packages install:

Missing Dependency: libedata-cal-1.2.so.1 is needed by package 
libopensync-plugin-evolution2
Missing Dependency: libpisock.so.9 is needed by package libopensync-plugin-palm
Missing Dependency: libecal-1.2.so.3 is needed by package 
libopensync-plugin-evolution2

Indeed FC5 still uses pilot-link-0.11, and the version installed for FC5 for 
libecal and libedata-cal are newer /usr/lib/libecal-1.2.so.6 
/usr/lib/libedata-cal-1.2.so.5
So it would be very kind of you if you fixed the dependencies and provided the 
pilot-link-0.12.1 rpm package, as well.

Finally there is no rpm for my mostly wanted plugin, that is google-calendar. 
Just a matter of time or are there serious problems?

Thanks again

---Beppe---

Re: [Opensync-users] OpenSync release 0.19

[<gro...@gm...>]

On FC5 I get some dependency errors:
--------------------------
# yum update
...
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for gnomad2 to pack into transaction set.
gnomad2-2.8.9-2.fc5.i386. 100% |=========================| 9.6 kB    00:00
---> Package gnomad2.i386 0:2.8.9-2.fc5 set to be updated
---> Downloading header for gnokii to pack into transaction set.
gnokii-0.6.14-23.1.i386.r 100% |=========================|  13 kB    00:00
---> Package gnokii.i386 0:0.6.14-23.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libmtp.so.2 for package: gnomad2
--> Processing Dependency: libgnokii.so.2 for package: kdepim
--> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for libmtp to pack into transaction set.
libmtp-0.0.20-1.fc5.i386. 100% |=========================| 3.0 kB    00:00
---> Package libmtp.i386 0:0.0.20-1.fc5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libgnokii.so.2 for package: kdepim
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libgnokii.so.2 is needed by package kdepim
--------------------------

If I do "yum install libopensync openobex wbxml2 multisync-gui" it
installs okey, but the it doesn't run:
--------------------------
$ multisync0.90
Starting up!
register plugins 0x837ac30
env 0x837ac30
name file-sync
option (nil)
env 0x837ac30
name evo2-sync
option 0x837ad20
env 0x837ac30
name synce-plugin
option 0x837ad20
loaded group syncmlfile
loaded group irmcfile
loaded group syncml-http-file
loaded group kdefile

** (multisync-gui:17482): WARNING **: Couldn't find pixmap file:
multisync-0.90/multisync_small.png
msync_open_mainwindow()
show_pairlist
Showing group syncmlfile
Showing group irmcfile
Showing group syncml-http-file
Showing group kdefile
setting status Ready
setting status Unclean shutdown detected. Slow-syncing now

** ERROR **: file opensync_plugin.c: line 452 (osync_plugin_get_path):
assertion failed: (plugin)
aborting...
Terminated
--------------------------

Same goes for:
$ msynctool --sync kdefile
Synchronizing group "kdefile"
The previous synchronization was unclean. Slow-syncing

** ERROR **: file opensync_plugin.c: line 452 (osync_plugin_get_path):
assertion failed: (plugin)
aborting...

I'm looking forward to get mye Sony Ericsson T610 sync with Kontact.
Is it possible to run opensync thourgh "multisynk" or "kitchensync"?

-Martin

Re: [Opensync-users] OpenSync release 0.19

[Daniel G. <dg...@su...>]

On Sunday 01 October 2006 15:44, Martin S. Gr=F8nsleth wrote:
> Error: Missing Dependency: libgnokii.so.2 is needed by package kdepim
The minor number of the gnokii library got bumped up with gnokii 0.6.14 (or=
=20
ealry) from libgnokii.so.2 to libgnokii.so.3. I will try to provide kdepim=
=20
packages which are linked against libgnokii.so.3 in the openSUSE Build=20
Service.

[...]
> setting status Ready
> setting status Unclean shutdown detected. Slow-syncing now
>
> ** ERROR **: file opensync_plugin.c: line 452 (osync_plugin_get_path):
> assertion failed: (plugin)
> aborting...
> Terminated
> --------------------------
>
> Same goes for:
> $ msynctool --sync kdefile
> Synchronizing group "kdefile"
> The previous synchronization was unclean. Slow-syncing
>
> ** ERROR **: file opensync_plugin.c: line 452 (osync_plugin_get_path):
> assertion failed: (plugin)
> aborting...

What does your group "kdefile" look like?
msynctool --showgroup kdefile

Also helpful for debugging would be the OSYNC_TRACE files:

export OSYNC_TRACE=3D/tmp/osync_trace/;
mkdir $OSYNC_TRACE;
msynctool --sync kdefile;
ls /tmp/osync_trace/*;

>
> I'm looking forward to get mye Sony Ericsson T610 sync with Kontact.
> Is it possible to run opensync thourgh "multisynk" or "kitchensync"?

I would recommend msynctool at the moment. The correct handling of object=20
types (events, todos, contacts, notes, ...) doesn't work perfect in OpenSyn=
c=20
0.19 (this will work like a charme in 0.30 (devel-branch)). Expect if you=20
want to sync your cellphone which doesn't support syncing of memos, but=20
kdepim trys to sync memos, OpenSync request them regardless of your cellpho=
ne=20
capability. OpenSync will get stucked in this case (deadlock).=20

msynctool have the paramter --filter-objtype which disable object types and=
=20
avoid syncing of them. For example disable syncing of memos/notes. So far a=
s=20
i know, kitchensync doesn't have this filtering feature at the moment

Btw. there are some Sony Erricsson cellphones which broken IrMC implementat=
ion=20
which doesn't allow to sync notes. For more detailes please read the README=
=20
of irmc-sync.

Have fun!
Daniel