Re: Working With Conduit

["John Carr" <john carr unrouted co uk>]

On 11/30/07, D Bera <dbera web gmail com> wrote:

Hi,

> Was just speaking to kkubasik on #tomboy about scope for work between
> conduit [1] and beagle.
>
> To cut a long e-mail short: Conduit syncs things in both directions. Data
> thing goes in, data thing comes out. So we have a growing range of plugins
> for different applications, web services and devices. My idea is: If we get
> data out, why can't we fire it to beagle too. Kill two birds with one stone.

Which two birds ? I mean, I don't understand the goal here. From the
link in your email, I understand conduit is a synchronization program
for user data across machines. Roughly, at least. So where does beagle
do in this picture ? Can you elaborate on that a little ?

Thanks,
- dBera

It's quite simple really. What does a beagle indexer do? It gets data out of an application, puts it into a format it understands and fires it at the index. What does a Conduit plugin do? One part is getting data out of an application, putting into a format the sync engine understands and fire it at the sync engine. What i'm offering is the ability to index data from any source that conduit supports as a sync source.

KKubasik was also interested in the mapping data - "oh, this photo came from flickr account "foo bar", and this one from a digital camera".

Hope that makes more sense!
John