[Gpe-list] New gpesyncd available

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

one more time: well done!
I even managed to get some events from a Funambol server (scheduleworld.com)
into GPE last night using the new gpesyncd and the syncml-client from OpenSync
SVN.

Graham Cobb wrote:
> The new gpesyncd is now available in SVN.  There has been no change to the 
> commands gpesyncd accepts or to the way it is used.  However, this new 
> version uses the database libraries and does not access the database 
> directly.  This means it is compatible with the current gpe-calendar, 
> gpe-contacts and gpe-todo applications (and, I hope, should stay that way!).

I can confirm this - it seems to work with all of them.

> If you use synchronisation, please build this new version from SVN and try it 
> out.  You can report bugs in the GPE bugzilla (http://bugs.linuxtogo.org/).

That reminds me that i still need to fix bugzilla finally...

> Bug 7: Cannot import events containing WKST.  This causes the whole event to 
> be rejected.

That's a stupid behaviour of libmimedir... and its error handling is a pain.

> Bug 9: Alarm triggers are not exported
> 
> Bug 10: Alarms are not imported.  This does not cause the whole event to be 
> rejected, the alarm is just lost.

This might be fixed in latest libmimedir and some additional patches. That means
it should work for maemo after updating the package from the feed at kc.
The sources with latest fixes are available here:
http://linuxtogo.org/~florian/gpe-sources-maemo/libmimedir_0.4.0cvs20060614-4.tar.gz
If someone could update libmimedir in OE i would be a lucky man :-)

I started to hack a small dock app to be used for starting/stopping gpesyncd,
but it isn't ready to use yet. It could monitor the sync process, provide status
information and maybe control other sync tools later on.
Anyone who wants to add a small gpe-conf module to configure port and allowed hosts?

Greetings

Florian

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