Re: ThreePointOne: Contacts

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 14:38 +0300, Jens Georg wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 13:21 +0200, daniel g. siegel wrote:
> > and right here i think we shouldn't base on bad formats (vcard) and
> > sucking protocols (syncml). using json is a much better option.
> 
> Well as soon as you talk about sync, someone says device. And devices
> come with vCard.
> 
> > see for example the desktopcouch specification for contacts
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktopcouch/contact
> 
> Looking at this - do you realise how much very much that matches the
> vCard spec? That's basically a vCard translated to JSON.
> 
well, that's because the fields used to describe a contact are quite
obvious, so it's not a vcard->json translation really, it's just a set
of fields to describe a contact, which happen to be also in vCard

> Personally, I'd rather have a root canal treatment than couch db
> hammering my computer, but I like the auto-replication idea.
> 
auto-replication of several instances and, most important, conflict
management for free :-)