Re: [pilot-db-list] some stuff

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

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:50:46PM +0300, Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
> First, the CVS seems to be 1.1.0. Congratulations! Are we ready for
> further development?

I hope we're getting ready for some real 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".

I've got a working version here locally too.  I'll merge our patches
and get them checked in shortly.

> 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?).

Yes, I think I have this done in mine.

> 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.

I will add it when I have a little bit of time (definitely this week).

> 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.

I haven't thought much about this, and am falling behind with the
tasks I want to do, so I think I'll leave this to others for now.

--nate