----- Original Message ----- From: Matt Davey Time: 22-08-08 15:52 > Hi Alex, > > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 05:06 -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote: > >>>>>>> "MD" == Matt Davey writes: >>>>>>> >> MD> I'm beginning to take a look at the Evolution conduits, and have >> MD> started with the addressbook conduit. >> >> MD> I'm aiming to start by fixing some data corruption bugs that have >> MD> annoyed me for a while. An early win is fixing the 'other' field >> MD> bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=547223 There are >> MD> several other bugs that need fixing and lead to data rot. Once >> MD> that is out of the way I'll look at adding support for ContactsDB >> MD> and the 'new' fields such as birthdays and photos. Support for >> MD> ContactsDB will require some limited new API on the gnome-pilot >> MD> side. >> >> Won't this require some changes on the pilot-link level to talk to >> ContactsDB? I seem to recall from a posting by David Desrosiers some >> time back that there was some initial work done in pilot-link but that >> is currently incomplete. >> > > I haven't yet looked in detail at the pilot-link support. The basics > are there, which might be sufficient. At one stage jpilot had better > Contacts support and I'm not sure if that's all been rolled in to > pilot-link. We'll have to check that out. Also, we'll have to decide > whether to have backwards compatibility for pilot-link versions that > don't support ContactsDB. That would complicate the code but it's > usually worth the trouble. >From what I've looked into it almost everything is available in pilot-link (at least, for version 0.12). The only thing I could see that was lacking was the ability to sync photos.
Kind regards, Tom
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