Hi Lukas, On 01/05/11 16:26, Lukas Zeller wrote: > > I mean, even we had perfect integration of SyncML, CalDAV, ActiveSync > etc. today, I feel it would still not cover everyday sync needs I > have today, let alone in the future. With the explosion of endpoints > (devices) on one side and data sources (services, databases) on the > other I doubt that point-to-point sync has a bright future. I have > the impression what we need could be more similar to git than to > SyncML.
I have the same feeling and therefore I created a playground - OldSync. This is just a technology study. The idea was that there are some basically good ideas like pipes, workflows and distributed repositories (hg, mercurial) which preserve a history. The idea was that every sync is a peer-to-peer sync but I always synchronized a device or the filesystem with a filesystem. If the data is in a repository (git, mercurial) then you have a backup and you can synchronize in a distributed way (native git/hg push/pull). Additionally such systems have a very flexible diff backends. So you need normalization but not always an own merger (at minimum for text based data). > This is of course vague thinking and far from anything realizable in > short term. But when talking about combining efforts, I think we need > also to talk about the big context for all this. I had just a rough idea too. I only want to express that I have the same impression like you. Best regards Michael -- ___________________________________________________________________ Michael Bell Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Tel.: +49 (0)30-2093 70143 ZE Computer- und Medienservice Fax: +49 (0)30-2093 70135 Unter den Linden 6 [email protected] D-10099 Berlin ___________________________________________________________________ PGP Fingerprint: 09E4 3D29 4156 2774 0F2C C643 D8BD 1918 2030 5AAB
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