[coldsync-hackers] ANL packer/unpacker - Help request

[Mike Bruins <bruins at hal9000 dot net.au>]

Hi,

This is my first post to this list, so please go easy on me :-)

I am interested in contributing code to add support for a palm
application, namely John Leung's Accounts & Loans 2.1.1 
http://accsnloans.com

I have written code to pack/unpack the records.  It's currently 
written is Perl, so first I was hoping to add it to the p5-Palm
package. 

I am also planning to convert it to C and add it to the standard
set of parsers.  I notice pilot-link contains libpisock which has
routines for handling the standard set of palm application databases.

After that I was hoping to build upon the library to add functionality
to coldsync, jpilot or something else in order to build some way for
the desktop to add/change ANL records on the palm pilot.

Questions:

Does anyone foresee any potential pitfalls with my approach ?

How does one go about contributing code to p5-Palm ?


Thank you for listening,

 - mike

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