On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 00:09 +0200, David Richardson wrote:
> Hey Mark,
> 
> 
> Sorry for the delayed response.  We've been busy with blackhat/defcon
> stuff.
> 
> 
> 
> This really looks awesome.  It solves some other problems that I was
> solving in hacky ways too (namely device enumeration)!  This will
> speed up our automated testing by a factor of # of devices.  I hope I
> can find some free time in the next few weeks to work in these changes
> and report some exact results to you guys.
> 

Glad you like it. While I'm a bit busy at the moment, I'll be adding and
tweaking so keep an eye on svn.

For a while there I thought MS had come up with quite a good api, if
actually terribly documented. Of course I was wrong, for one thing it
doesn't deal at all with the password / locked status of a device, oh
well :)

> 
> I do want to note that we here at Flexilis are planning on open
> sourcing this automated testing tool that allows scripted gui testing
> and deploying unit tests to hundreds of devices across multiple
> platforms (android, winmo, etc) sometime in the near future.
> 
> 
> I'm really impressed Mark, thanks a lot!
> 
> 
> -David Richardson
> Flexilis
> 
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Mark Ellis <m...@mpellis.org.uk>
> wrote:
>         On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 09:01 +0200, Guido Diepen wrote:
>         > Hi Mark,
>         >
>         > Could you please explain a bit more what the effect of this
>         would be when
>         > I would like to work on implementing some more of the
>         functionality (for
>         > example databases, which are still not supported AFAIK for
>         wm5+ devices).
>         >
>         > Furthermore, do all current programs have to be rewritten,
>         or is this just
>         > an additional interface?
>         >
>         > Kind regards,
>         >
>         > Guido Diepen
>         >
>         
>         
>         Firstly, it's a completely separate interface, nothing else
>         needs to be
>         rewritten, though a lot of things will probably benefit over
>         time if
>         they were.
>         
>         We were fortunate enough for the existing library to translate
>         very
>         easily to the new api, and while the structure has changed a
>         bit, I
>         mostly did that to make it all clearer.
>         
>         The main points to keep in mind are that what used to be
>         rapi_indirection.c, where the public functions called the
>         appropriate
>         WM2003 or WM5 operations, is now rapi_api.c; and the
>         directories that
>         contain the version specific operations, that used to be
>         called rapi and
>         rapi2, are now backend_ops_1 and backend_ops_2. Implementing
>         functions
>         is exactly the same, put the code in the skeleton func in the
>         backend
>         directory, and rename in appropriate places from
>         NotImplemented... to
>         the function name etc.
>         
>         All the backend implementations (apart from RapiInvoke with a
>         stream,
>         but that's another game entirely), now get the RapiContext to
>         use as
>         their first arguement, and shouldn't use context_current, but
>         that's the
>         most significant change.
>         
>         That would be great if you did the database functions, I did
>         start but
>         didn't get very far at all.
>         
>         Mark
>         
>         
>         
>         > > David, in case you don't follow the svn commits I thought
>         I'd give you a
>         > > heads up on this.
>         > >
>         > > I recently committed a new api to librapi2 based on David
>         Eriksson's
>         > > suggestion of using the MS rapi2 api. It's definitely not
>         finished, but
>         > > it does work. In particular most of the utility functions
>         don't work,
>         > > reference counting is dodgy, and the error codes need some
>         work, but all
>         > > of the previously implemented session functions should be
>         fine. If you
>         > > want to give it a go you'll need the svn of libsynce as
>         well.
>         > >
>         > > The attached program should give you the idea. Let me know
>         what you
>         > > think.
>         > >
>         > > Mark
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
>         > >
>         
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