Re: [coldsync-hackers] Hotsync proxy to coldsync ...

["Matthew C. Weigel" <weigel+@pitt.edu>]

On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Johan Van den Brande wrote:

> Do you know of any GUI projects for coldsync? They all seem to be
> build arounf pilot-link, but pilot-link is a bit archaic IMHO ...

I'm planning one for Cocoa/GNUstep.  Slowly.  Right now I'm working on
USB for coldsync under Darwin, my next step is a GUI PIM using libpdb,
and eventually a hotsync GUI using libpconn.

The coldsync program has a number of features that wouldn't translate
well to a GUI, such as running from inetd (dunno about you but I would
go *nuts* if someone could send me network traffic and pop up a window
- hmmm no I don't use ICQ :), so all that you can reasonably expect is
one more way to hotsync.

As for progress bars and such... for some things that might be possible
(like installing files), but does DLP tell you beforehand how many
bytes are going into each db sync, and how many bytes overall?
Otherwise, it wouldn't be very useful (I note that Palm's software
doesn't have progress bars, but Palm's software also sucks).

I originally planned on using pilot-link because I was familiar with
it, having used pilot-xfer and Jpilot quite a bit.  I wasn't very happy
with the code, so I went looking for better approaches.
-- 
 Matthew Weigel
 Research Systems Programmer
 mcweigel@cs.cmu.edu ne weigel@pitt.edu

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