Re: [Evolution] Evo Sync with Sharp Zaurus and other handhelds

[Erik Bågfors <erik bagfors nu>]

tis 2001-12-11 klockan 21.39 skrev Aaron Weber:
> Erik Bågfors <erik bagfors nu> mentioned in another thread that he had
> been working on syncing or exporting Evolution data to the sharp
> Zaurus.  That's really cool, and I applaud him for it.

Well, That's half true.  I've created a small hack that exports the
addressbook (and soon the calendar) to an xml-file that qpe/qtopia's
addressbook (and soon calendar) can read and use.

I'm using it for an IPAQ but it should work equally well on a Zaurus. 

The code is not nice, it was really a prof-of-concept-thing for me and
I'm not as good of a programmer (at least in C) as you guys :)

I wasn't planing on adding sync-support but there has been many people
interested in it so I might.  But then the code really needs to be
rewritten.  The reason I didn't want to work with syncing is that I'm
hoping for a X/Gtk(/Gnome) based environment for the IPAQ instead of
qpe. 

I also found some small problems with the different libraries and
include-files that evolution uses.  

For example check out the file /usr/include/evolution/ebook/e-book.h.
It tries to include files from "addressbook/backend/ebook/" which means
you have to have the evolution source-code available.

I'll try to summarize them for you soon.


> Erik, if you have a project page for the work you've been doing, we
> could link to it from our Developer Zone.  If you'd like that, write to
> me and I'll set that up for you.

Perhaps after christmas.  So far it's just an ugly hack :)

/Erik

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