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Re: [coldsync-hackers] Photo conduits
On Monday 11 October 2004 16:06, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
> thank you for the work you're doing on the CVS.. I've been
> too busy to apply the patches ;)
No problem. I'm in the midst of a flurry of coldsync/p5-palm activity
anyways.
I should point out, by the way, that this is probably my first major session
of conduit hacking where I haven't needed to add more functionality to
coldsync/p5-palm itself. I _think_ that's good. It could also be just a
lack of imagination on my part.
> You may want to add your conduits to the CVS.. I think
> they would fit...
I've thought about it. I don't see a problem for some, certainly.
archive-sync, the C conduits, and a few others.
However, many of the more non-trivial conduits introduce a heaping pile of
dependencies.
zire71-album pulls in Image::IPTCInfo, GDBM_File, and MLDBM. Actually, I
think GDBM_File is in the base perl distro, but the others aren't.
Eventually I hope to add some EXIF support.
zire71-flickr requires Flickr::API, Flickr::Upload, and
XML::Parser::Lite::Tree. I haven't added any IPTC or EXIF support, but give
me time.
tv-sync requires XMLTV and all its dependencies (various XML parsers).
install-* require File::MimeInfo::Magic, Palm::Doc for most, various Unix
command line utils (pdf, doc converters), etc.
There's also my Palm::DiabetesPilot conduit, which is on CPAN.
Not that it would be a completely Bad Thing to have a bunch more useful
conduits in the base coldsync package, especially when some of them
demonstrate complicated processes, but I'm somewhat concerned that the
quantity of new dependencies that I'd be dragging along. It might just be
safer to add some links from the conduit page with the appropriate "Chris
develops against CVS, make sure you stay up-to-date" warning.
c.
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