-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
> The problem is "how does the desktop machine's operating system 'know' the
> PalmOS machine is connected, the card is in the slot and the card is
> read-write enabled?".
Are we sure we're trying to solve the right problem here?
> Some sort of automatic detection and copy could probably be done with
> Linux (although whether the card is read-write or read-only might be
> difficult to ascertain) but I suspect it isn't possible on Windows
> machines.
I would definately be hesitant to see any of this type of code in
Plucker, the parser, or any tools shipped with it. It's way too far outside
Plucker's scope to try to deal with this. Leave it up to tools like J-Pilot,
pilot-link, Palm Desktop, HotSync Manager, Coldsync, etc. to deal with
errors when the device is full, missing external storage, or read-only.
> That you have to press a button to synchronise is telling. Windows CE
> machines have always had the option of 'continuous synchronisation' -
> whenever the machine goes in the cradle, or every N minutes thereafter,
> it's synchronised - and it's full of problems.
There was a conscious decision at Palm to do this for battery
concerns early on, and it became part of the archicture. Now with Palm
handhelds having internal batteries that can be charged in the cradle,
"constant" sync probably isn't such an issue, but I would really hope Palm
doesn't move in that direction.
With PocketPC and WinCE devices, if you enter a new Task in Outlook,
it is automatically sync'd to your handheld if it is in the cradle. I see
that as a huge flaw. Let _me_ decide what gets sent to the device, and what
stays on the desktop, not Microsoft.
> Not the most tactfully worded remark ... it may well be that AvantGo has
> dodged installing to VFS cards because it has had trouble solving the
> problems listed above.
Or that their application itself would balloon another 50k or more
because it has to now handle internal VFS structures as well as stock RAM,
ROM, and so on. Their application footprint is already 500k or so now in the
color version, it's massive.
d.
perldoc -qa.j | perl -lpe '($_)=m("(.*)")'
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQE9fdZtkRQERnB1rkoRAuXxAJ9yZC1AyTaE/NBV3Z8j3vmZvr3zNgCdFeD6
RHQS3n8ouF+QTgf5KczBlig=
=sD+y
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
_______________________________________________
plucker-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
