Andrey, I agree with you. Contact data and a configuration should be stored separately from each other.
2011/5/18 Andrew Savchenko <[email protected]> > Hello, > > On Tue, 17 May 2011 12:46:12 +0100 Alastair Johnson wrote: > > I suggest one, other or preferably both of: > > 1 - Use a basic format that EDS, Akonadi, OpenSync and other sync tools > can > > already understand. Such a format should already have libs available to > make > > using it simple and robust. vCard 3.0 with the X-SIP extended attribute > is my > > best guess for this. > > You will never be able to satisfy anyone's opinion. There are plenty > of "common" formats and even the sense of what is common and what is > not may differ. > > For the very first, it is not so important which format will be used > at all. What matters is that contact data must be stored separated > from program config file, thus synchronization between different > linphone clients will be easy. > > > 2 - Make it plugable. People can add support for other backends if they > don't > > like your choice(s), or you can add them as demand appears. > > > > Whatever the individual merits of Akonadi, EDS, CouchDB/desktopcouch, > Google > > and so on, none are suitable for all situations where linphone might be > > deployed. > > This will take a considerable time effort and will never cover all > possible formats in use these days. > > For my personal opinion something simple and human readable should be > sufficient. I do not want to use complicated and bloated databases > like akonadi just to save simple contact lists. VCards are not so > good also, because UTF-8 strings are often saved there in completely > unreadable format and you need special viewer/editor/script to handle > them. > > I am happy with current simple format, but ask to separate contacts > and config options. For the first step this should be sufficient. > > Best regards, > Andrew Savchenko > > _______________________________________________ > Linphone-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/linphone-users > >
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