On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:57:09PM +0100, Pierre Pietri wrote: > Hello Mr Frey,
Hi, (CC'ing the list, to keep the conversation useful for all) > First, many thanks for your rapid, though not much encouraging, answer! > > Second, I made an experiment which leads me to a suggestion. Please just > spend one minute to read that. > > The experiment was just to convert my address book database to LDIF > format using btool -c. > In terms of contents, the output was incomparably better than what I > obtained with msynctool. All the international characters inside my > address book (essentially, diacritic European characters) pass > correctly, and the records are not truncated and seem well extracted > (despite a few strange cases where such trivial fields as PostalAddress > are forgotten). This is a good test. Thanks! It would seem to point to a possible bug in the plugin, or at least some part of opensync along the way. I'm guessing it is a Barry plugin issue, but haven't looked at it in detail yet. > The suggestion is to avoid the need for painful reverse engineering by > simply taking benefits of a work that seems to have been already done > for btool. > This could be done > - either by invoking btool functions from msynctool, > - or, if not possible, by using the proper btool library modules, > - or, if not possible, by getting inspiration from the btool sources > and algorithms. > > Maybe this is a "wrong good idea", and I'm breaking down doors already > open. > What is your opinion ? I know that I tackled this issue with syncing last year, based on a feature request, but the original requester didn't respond whether it worked for them or not. Looks like I'll have to revisit it when I have time. Would you be willing to help test new development versions? It would require some compiling on your end. Thanks, - Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
