[pilot-db-list] some stuff

[Yedidyah Bar-D. <di...@ta...>]

Hi all, Nate,

First, the CVS seems to be 1.1.0. Congratulations! Are we ready for
further development?

Second, I attach a small patch which reflects the version I personally
work with. It's against 1.1.0, and has two things: One is that it's
compilable, with "./configure --enable-standard --enable-debug \
--with-palmos=5r3 --with-sony-incdir=/usr/local/share/palmdev/sony-sdk/Incs \
--with-handera-incdir=/usr/local/share/palmdev/handera-sdk/include". Sadly,
the patch changes CFLAGS, something which should probably be done by
configure, but since I don't know autoconf etc., I will let you take care
of this (will you?). The other change is adding Hebrew support. The actual
file iw.rcp is still in <http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/iw.rcp>, I did not
want to attach it because it's quite big. I also have some small other
stuff, but will wait until the CVS is stable.

Third, I spent quite some time on writing a datascript specification for
pilot-db pdb files. You can see my current draft at
<http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~didi/pilot_db.ds>. Even without knowing
datascript, you'll agree that it's very readable, and seems very nice to
work with, compared to C++ (palm-db-tools). It's not ready, but does
contain quite a lot of the details. I do have some problems, and am in
contact with datascript's author. Also, I don't know Java, and instead
of learning, I found and use XStream, which dumps to XML, which I can
read, and is good enough for debugging. Writing useful programs to
convert to/from pdb to text files will require some Java, though.
Is anyone interested? Or I will have to actually learn Java for this?
Tell me what you think.
datascript is, in case it wasn't obvious, at datascript.sourceforge.net.
-- 
Didi