[pilot-db-list] development progress update

[Nathan K. <na...@ve...>]

I'm putting some time into the immediate goal of getting creating a
new stable release candidate, but I'm not getting that far.  The main
problem I'm hitting is that most of the outstanding bugs (or at least
the ones reported on the bug tracker) are specific to Tungsten users,
and I don't have a Tungsten to test on. 

For older Palms, there is an Emulator that runs well on Linux.  For
newer version (OS 5 and greater) there is a Simulator, but it's
Windows only, and I due to a medical condition (acute rage syndrome)
I'm not allowed to use Windows machines.  I just wasted a day trying
to see if I could make the Simulator run under Wine.  It almost
works---well enough that I can occasionally confirm a bug, but not
well enough to actually use for debugging.  And it turns out that Wine
is sufficiently close to Windows to have affected me (kill kill kill).

My first guess is that the bugs aren't actually Tungsten related, but
high-resolution related.  Perhaps because of the messed up nature of
the code, one needs to compile with "CONFIG_HANDERA" or "CONFIG_SONY"
to get the Tungsten to work properly.  But compiling with these
requires some proprietary SDK's which I don't have yet, so I haven't
tried that.  I'll try to get them later tonight.

Anyway, if anyone wants to step up and help with the Tungsten bugs,
that would be great.  And if anyone is good with making apps work with
wine (DLL disassembly and the like) help would be appreciated.  

--nate, hoping to fix the bugs so he can work on the new features