Re: [coldsync-hackers] coldsync frontends?

[Andrew Arensburger <arensb+CShackers@ooblick.com>]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:31:20PM -0400, Alex Tronin wrote:
> > If you provide right set of headers to those Palm conduits on standard
> > input, you will be able to add/delete/modify Palm records which will be
> > synced later on.
>
> What conduits?  I haven't found any coldsync conduits in
> p5-Palm-1.2.4.tar.gz.

	There aren't any. p5-Palm is a set of modules for reading and
writing Palm databases.
	The ColdSync distribution includes the ColdSync.pm Perl module,
which uses the p5-Palm modules to make it easy to write ColdSync conduits
in Perl.
	However, p5-Palm is a separate tool, which is why it's in a
separate distribution.

> And I haven't noticed any general-purpose
> conduits in coldsync distribution that could use p5-Palm modules to
> perform alterations specified via headers.  Did I miss something?  Or
> are you suggesting that I can write my own conduits easily using p5-Palm
> modules?

	I think that's what he's suggesting, yes. As far as I know, no one
has (yet) written a conduit that'll edit a file on the fly from its input
headers.

> (I'll probably do that if I don't find anything already done
> -- you know, not reinventing the wheel; lazyness is one of the great
> programmer's virtues; etc. ;-)

	If what you want to do is write a script that adds one or more
records to an existing database, take a look at
http://www.ooblick.com/software/coldsync/conduits/philcon
This does what you want, but bear in mind that it's a bit dated, and I
think that with the latest version of p5-Palm, it should be easier.

-- 
Andrew Arensburger                      Actually, these _do_ represent the
arensb@ooblick.com                      opinions of ooblick.com!
                        Generic Tagline V 6.01


This message was sent through the coldsync-hackers mailing list.  To remove
yourself from this mailing list, send a message to majordomo@thedotin.net
with the words "unsubscribe coldsync-hackers" in the message body.  For more
information on Coldsync, send mail to coldsync-hackers-owner@thedotin.net.