I have taken over maintaining SyncBBDB, a perl program written by Thomas DeWeese for syncing between a PalmOS handheld device and bbdb. SyncBBDB can be run as a module of the PilotManager sync framework, or as a stand-alone program if bbdb is the only application you want to sync with.
http://syncbbdb2.sourceforge.net/ Note the '2' in 'syncbbdb2'. There is another sourceforge project called 'syncbbdb', and it's not the same thing. I released a new version several weeks ago (I'd intended to send an announcement here, but it seems I forgot). It's called version 2.5; there was never officialy a 2.4 release, but the version in CVS has had that number for the past few years and a number of people have been using the CVS version. Changes since 2.3 include: my changes: * Fix major bug: if connection is dropped during sync, entries can be erroneously deleted. You could lose your whole address book this way! * "bootstrap" script works again * Fix a couple of bugs that had been introduced post-2.3. * correct call to $dlp->getUserInfo: it doesn't die on error, it just returns undef. * More fixes for non-ascii ISO-8859-1 characters. This is just a band-aid, we really need a more thorough solution that can handle Palms with different encodings, and different codings (utf-8 for example) on the unix side as well. changes made by Thomas DeWeese while he was still maintaining it: * Now only sets bbdb first name, last name and company if the pilot had values for them. * Ensures phone labels are set to valid values * Ensures overview field is set to the first field set by the sync (really needs more work). * Fixed a bug so SyncBBDB will delete records from BBDB when deleted on the palm (introduced with 'pilot-ignore' support). Please remember to back up your Palm and ~/.bbdb before testing. -Aaron ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
