Re: [pilot-db-list] some stuff

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

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 03:37:54PM -0600, Nathan Kurz wrote:
> 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.
> 

OK, this time I actually attach something.
It also includes the bugfix I sent a month ago. It will probably be the
only part you'll actually merge.

> > 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.

Good.

> 
> > 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).

OK. I think I'll post this to ivrix-discuss to get some feedback, since
there does not seem to be any Hebrew-speaker here.

> 
> > 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.

No problem. I will try to continue by myself. I will be happy to get
someone else, with some Java knowledge, interested, though.
-- 
Didi