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

["Ujwal S. Sathyam" <ujwal netbrowser com>]

Would you mind copying me on it too? I have a Zaurus, and I have been
contemplating writing some syncing software for Evolution in my copious
spare time.

Thanks,

Ujwal

On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 01:49, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 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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