>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas E Deweese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "AK" == Arnd Kohrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas E Deweese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
AK> The BBDB<->Palm synchability should be useful to as many users
AK> as possible. Personally, I synch my Palm with the shipped
AK> synching software.
Thomas> Shipped on what?
Oops sorry, I assumed that Palms are always shipped with the Windows
HotSync manager.
AK> So in order to use a conduit driven approach I first needed to
AK> install the compatible synching software.
Thomas> I would argue that the problem is not with the conduit
Thomas> approach but with the shipped software if it doesn't support
Thomas> conduits. The conduit approach is exactly the little pieces
Thomas> of software that all work together. Individual sync apps is
Thomas> a monolithic approach (one which fundamentally breaks the
Thomas> intended Palm syncing architecture).
AFAIK, and I might be wrong, each synchronization manager (HotSync in my
case) has proprietary interface and conduits for one synchronization
manager are incompatible with other synchronization managers. Please
tell me that I am wrong, because I am tempted to plug syncBBDB into
HotSync.
Thomas> I'm not set against a multi-step process (although it
Thomas> sounds like this many not be what Ronan Waide had in mind).
Thomas> I just need to be convinced that we aren't breaking up
Thomas> something that would only be used as a whole. Because, I'm
Thomas> fairly convinced that breaking it up this way wouldn't make
Thomas> it easier to debug and maintain the pieces but would
Thomas> introduce many integration issues.
Well, I can't really argue with you on this point, since You have
written a conduit already and made your experience. Unfortunately, I
cannot use the synchronization functionality of syncBBDB at all because
it requires me to install a new operating system and a new
synchronization manager and abandon all conduits which don't exist for
the PilotManager. If there were some file-oriented tools which ran
independently from the synchronization manager I could synch my
addresses every once in a while manually (which would be a great advance
for me) - or even better somebody knowledgeable of HotSync could use
those tools to build a conduit for HotSync manager.
Cheers,
Arnd.
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