[Gpe-list] Debian and Emdebian. gpe-cash and gpe-invoice

[Graham Cobb]

On Thursday 17 May 2007 22:59, Neil Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:36:44 +0100
> Graham Cobb <g+gpe at cobb.uk.net> wrote:
> > Any plans to include gpesyncd in your packages?
>
> I'm not sure - if the user can simply rsync ~/.gpe/* then is there a
> role for a specialist sync program? If people want to use Emdebian on
> their handheld, isn't it reasonable to expect that they would also be
> running Debian on the workstation? Emdebian *is* Debian, only smaller.

Maybe running Debian (although I would think there would be plenty of Windows 
users as well), but probably not running GPE -- they may be using Kontact for 
example.  And if they are running GPE on the desktop they will still need to 
synchronise with other systems (Google, Exchange, etc.).  gpesyncd is also 
used when synchronising from the handheld down to an even smaller device 
(like a mobile phone -- not running a general purpose OS at all).

Just to avoid any confusion: gpesyncd is not a sync program (opensync is the 
sync program which uses gpesyncd).  gpesyncd is really a way to get standards 
compliant data (iCalendar, vCard, etc.) in and out of the GPE databases.  It 
provides an interface that doesn't change when the object structure in the 
database changes.  However, I will admit that the only thing that uses it 
today is opensync!

However, I take your point that even if you thought it was a good idea you are 
not going to be adding gpesyncd in the short term as you are focusing on 
other things!

Graham