pilot-link 0.11.6, "Torrent of Lucidity"

["David A. Desrosiers" <hacker gnu-designs com>]

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	Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone.

	I've just released pilot-link 0.11.6 last night. This release is
mostly a maintenance release, but there are quite a few fixes, new features
and enhancements. Please use this release over all others where possible.

	Here's a very quick rundown of the things new/fixed/remaining in
	this release.

Some New Stuff
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        * New pilot-archive sample conduit to send archived ToDo records to
          STDOUT as CSV-formatted entries.
        * Deprecated pilot-mail, in favor of pilot-mailsync. pilot-mail
          remains, as an example to other conduit authors.
        * pilot-link 0.11.6 will now cleanly build on OSX 10.x.x systems
        * pilot-xfer --time feature added to sync Palm time to desktop time
        * New install-todo conduit (Robert A. Kaplan)
        * New install-expenses conduit
        * Cleaned up pilot_connect() to report better error conditions, and
          propose possible solutions to solving them for general users
        * Added HOST_OS detection and linked into each conduit, to assist
          debugging
        * Added Python test script (Nicholas Piper)
        * Added support for ElectricFence malloc() debugging library
	* ..and more things I forgot. Check the ChangeLog for the latest.


Some Bug Fixes:
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        * Fix for failures on usb:// notation use
        * Fix for missing pi_close() elements
        * Fix for installing files larger than available space on device
        * Fix for autoconf 2.1x and 2.5x compatibility
        * Fix for TCL version detection in pilot-debug
        * Fix for CreatorID output in dlpsh
        * Fix to allow gcc 3.2  builds
        * Fix for pilot_connect() that was losing the client socket
        * Fix for install-memos malloc() bug, -t missing argument bug, title
          truncation bug.


Some Known Problems:
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        * FreeBSD "hangs" on USB synchronization (this may not be a
	  pilot-link bug, as serial, IR works using the same code
	  structures). It doesn't actually "hang", though it looks like a
	  hang. Communication and tickle packets are being sent and
	  received, but handshaking is in NeverNeverLand. I'll be focusing
	  on this in January.
        * snprintf() calls fail on Irix 6.4 systems
        * Improper getopt_long propagation on Irix 6.4
        * autoconf/automake 2.5x problems on AIX
        * install-memo doesn't strip ^M from files before syncronization,
          doesn't detect duplicate files being sync'd to the same device.
	* On some systems, when readline isn't found, the C++ configuration
	  test will fail. I have a fix, but it wasn't deployed when I
	  released 0.11.6.  It will be in 0.11.7.


Reporting Bugs:
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	If you find a bug in pilot-link, please log into the bugtracker
	found at http://bugs.pilot-link.org and check for any existing bug
	reports that might be similar to yours. If there are none, please
	report your bug, and remember to be as detailed as possible when
	filing your report. It will help us fix the issues faster.



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