On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 12:38 +0100, Dr J A Gow wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 10:54 +0100, Mark Ellis wrote: > > clarify something first. John, is there any problem with using opensync > > 0.2x to do a sync, replace opensync and the plugin with 0.3x, and then > > do another sync ? If this works, then I think opensync versions in /etc > > would be a good thing for distros. Of course it would be better worked > > out programmatically, but I don't know if that is possible. > > > > I strongly suspect this might not work, though I haven't delved into > Opensync internals enough to be 100% sure. I think that Opensync's sync > database is different between OS0.2x and OS0.3x - meaning that the files > and Opensync sync partnership generated by OS0.2x would not be > compatible with OS0.3x (all in the ~/.opensync directory). So we can not > use old 0.2x sync data with 0.3x. > > I can see the point now of putting a systemwide file in /etc, and this > would not be difficult to implement. Not only would AuthMethod and > OpensyncXMLFormat benefit from this, but some of the file sync config > settings could be hardware (i.e. system) dependent rather than user > dependent. >
I was going to say at this point that it would be best to not allow users to override the OS version, but I've just noticed that my ~/.opensync is actually ~/.opensync-0.22 (Ubuntu hardy), whilst on Debian it was just ~/.opensync, so it is probably safe in certain circumstances. Mark > I would be happy to take the approach of scanning /etc, then ~/.synce, > and if unset use the app defaults. > > Alternatively, packagers could put the template file in somewhere > sensible, such as /usr/share/synce/examples or similar, where it could > be found by users who want to customize their configuration. > > John. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
